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+# Regular completions
+complete -c vips -s l -l list -d 'List objects'
+complete -c vips -s p -l plugin -d 'Load PLUGIN'
+complete -c vips -s v -l version -d 'Print version'
+complete -c vips -l vips-concurrency        -d 'Evaluate with N threads'
+complete -c vips -l vips-progress           -d 'Show progress feedback'
+complete -c vips -l vips-leak               -d 'Leak-check on exit'
+complete -c vips -l vips-profile            -d 'Profile and dump timing on exit'
+complete -c vips -l vips-disc-threshold     -d 'Decompress images larger than N'
+complete -c vips -l vips-novector           -d 'Disable vectorised operations'
+complete -c vips -l vips-cache-max          -d 'Cache at most N operations'
+complete -c vips -l vips-cache-max-memory   -d 'Cache at most N bytes in memory'
+complete -c vips -l vips-cache-max-files    -d 'Allow at most N open files'
+complete -c vips -l vips-cache-trace        -d 'Trace operation cache'
+complete -c vips -l vips-cache-dump         -d 'Dump operation cache on exit'
+complete -c vips -l vips-version            -d 'Print libvips version'
+complete -c vips -l vips-config             -d 'Print libvips config'
+complete -c vips -l vips-pipe-read-limit    -d 'Pipe read limit (bytes)'
+
+# Operations
+complete -c vips -n '__fish_is_first_token' -xa "(__fish_vips_ops)"
+
+function __fish_vips_ops
+	vips -l | string match -rv _base | string replace -rf '^\s*\S+ \((.+?)\), +(\S.*?)(?:\s*[,(].*)?$' '$1\t$2'
+end