Expansion from home directory

[Andreas Haselbacher]

I apologize if this is old hat (I could not find it in the FAQ), but I 
encounter the annoying problem that if I use path completion starting 
with my home directory, i.e.,

~haselbac/cfd/...

then bash puts a space after each directory name, i.e., if there was a 
directory called 'calcs' below 'cfd', bash would put

~haselbac/cfd/calcs_

where the '_' denotes an empty space. This is annoying because I have to 
backspace several times when I work through deep directory hierarchies.

If I put the complete path to my home directory, i.e.,

/Users/haselbac/cfd/...

then this does not happen. Any explanations/ideas/fixes/etc?

Thanks

Andreas