Re: menu-complete command fails to complete file names

[Chet Ramey]

Jérôme REYBERT wrote:
> I bind the "menu-complete" command to <TAB> key with the following line
> in my .bashrc:
> bind '"\t"':menu-complete
> 
> menu-complete is a bash command. It allows to bash to display in a
> different way completions. Instead of display a list of completion,
> possible completions rolls on your current line. I am pretty sure that
> the problem comes from bash, not bash-completion. Setting bash to
> verbose, auto_completion commands seem the same with "complete"
> (standard completion) and "menu-complete".
> 
> menu-complete is not able to complete file names. However, it can
> complete directories names. Here to reproduce:
> $ mkdir bar1 bar2
> $ touch foo1 foo2
> $ ls ba<TAB>
> $ ls bar1/      # OK
> $ ls fo<TAB>    # nothing append

Thanks for the report.  This has already been fixed for bash-4.1.

Chet

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