Re: show-all-if-ambiguous broken?

[Chet Ramey]

Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3 wrote:
> In my .inputrc I have:
> 
>   set print-completions-horizontally on
>   set show-all-if-ambiguous on
> 
> Despite of this, I have to type <tab> TWICE to get the completions
> listed. Is there a bug in the completion system, or do I miss yet
> another option?
> 
> I'm using bash 2.05b (unfortunately, upgrading to 3.x is not an option).

I cannot reproduce it.  Do you use the programmable completion
package?  I rarely use it (and can't check it right now).

Chet
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