Re: Exclude builtins from command completion

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/17/20 12:18 PM, kaycee gb wrote:

> When I was trying to achieve that, by accident I entered a colon ":" at an empty
> prompt. I expected that it will do nothing but in fact that lists all files in
> the current directory.

This comes up every now and then.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2003-01/msg00088.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-12/msg00029.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-06/msg00038.html

In this case, readline completes an empty filename.


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