Re: menu-complete command fails to complete file names

[Chet Ramey]

cwillu wrote:
>> Jérôme REYBERT wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> Do you know off hand which patch?  I did a quick once-over the 33
> patches available for 4.0, and didn't see anything obviously related
> from the comments, nor any hits on "menu-complete",

I have not released a patch for it.  If there is sufficient need, I
will.

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