Re: forwarded: annoying change in completion behaviour with no way to revert

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 at 09:10:39 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> The bash-2.05a/readline-4.2a implementation requires that the user
> disambiguate.
> 
> That said, there have been at least five complaints about this since
> bash-2.05a was released, so I will make it a settable readline option
> for the next release.

Could I also suggest that, if possible, 'complete -d cd' and so on
should be counted as the user unambiguously choosing the target rather
than the symlink, even if this readline option isn't set?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]