Re: tab completion error

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/28/23 5:55 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:17:22AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > On 9/25/23 5:40 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:44:15PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> ...
> > > Do we need to file an issue with bash-completion?
>
> Issue created:
> https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/1057
>
> With an even smaller reproducer.
>
> INPUTRC=/dev/null bash --noprofile --norc
> mkdir d
> touch d/f
> ls d/"<TAB>
>
> Gives:
> ls d/"d/

This could be an opportunity for bash-completion to do a better job than
bash's default completion. It could note that ${COMP_WORDS[$COMP_CWORD]}
differs from the word readline thinks is being completed, check whether
readline's word is a subset of the current word, perform completions on
the current word as it does now, and then filter out the prefix readline
isn't going to use before returning the possible completions.


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