[Gnu-arch-users] Re: problems with bash-complete: doubling prefix@

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An even simpler example, which is for realistic use: you want to tag a
project from address@hidden archive to a local project.  I
use the underscore, _ to show where the cursor stops.

tla tag jb_
TAB
tla tag address@hidden
TAB
tla tag address@hidden

In general, any attempt to get a completion of a fully qualified name
such as address@hidden/tlacontrib--devo--1.2

will double the prefix before @ right after hitting the / and getting
c--b--v.  One has to go back and manually undouble the prefix if you
want any further completion.

Creating plain files address@hidden and address@hidden shows that bash handles 
them OK,
but mixes with e-mail names on my box, so I have to escape \@ -- then
it completes them fine, without doubling the prefix.  There's
something about that @ deep inside tla completions...

Cheers,
Alexy


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:12:32 -0500, Deliverable Mail
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Try the following:  say, you have an archive address@hidden
> (from http://mirrors.sourcecontrol.net/-"-/ where
> tlacontrib--devo--1.2 contains bash-complete).  You want to browse it.
> 
> tla abrowse jblack   
> TAB
> tla abrowse address@hidden 
> 
> # trailing space after 2004, all is fine...  yet!
> 
> now, backspace over some characters in the tail and TAB again:
> 
> tla abrowse address@hidden
> TAB
> tla abrowse address@hidden
> 
> So, the PREFIX before @ doubles upon two completions.
> 
> I first noticed it when created archives with names address@hidden and
> address@hidden
> Then teh second TAB doubles the prefix 1 even earlier:
> 
> tla abrowse 1
> TAB
> tla abrowse address@hidden
> y
> tla abrowse address@hidden
> 
> The code in tla-bash-complete, aside from forgetting 0-9 in _archives,
> has no special treatment for @.  But @ appears heavily used as a
> parameter.  I wonder whether this is a bug in bash...  And I have the
> latest bash 3.00.  Any ideas as to what may be going on/how to
> alleviate it (backlashing something)?
> 
> Cheers
> Alexy
>