Re: Wrong prompt and incorrect parsing if completion is used

[Egmont Koblinger]

Hi Chet,

Thanks for fixing it!

Sorry I didn't provide the output you requested, I was on vacation for a
week, and now it seems you no longer need it :)

egmont

On Aug 15, 2010 6:22 PM, "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 8/9/10 12:02 PM, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
>
>> Start over, type the following (replace TAB by pressing the TAB key):
>> ps1$ cd /biTAB`
>> The auto-completed command looks exactly as the manually typed one, hence
>> the expected behavior is the same. However, press Enter, and the primary
>> prompt gets displayed. Logically, however, this is still a secondary
prompt
>> (if you type another command, or press ^D, the behavior suggests this).
>>
>> Start over, type the following:
>> ps1$ cd /biTAB`
>> ps1$ cd /sbTAB`
>> The following error is printed:
>> bash: bad substitution: no closing `}' in "${to`
>> cd /sbin/`
>>
>> Note that bash_completion doesn't have a shell variable named "to", it
only
>> has "toks", so seems like parsing the file pretty much goes off the
track.
>> The error message cuts this word in half at a position depending on the
>> length of the directory pathnames.
>
> You're correct that this was a bug in bash. Both of these are the result
> of the same bug, which will be fixed in bash-4.2.
>
> Chet
>
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