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Re: Bash completion buggy if -o nospace, -o filenames and -W used togeth
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash completion buggy if -o nospace, -o filenames and -W used together. |
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Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:50:07 -0400 |
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Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've found a bug in bash autocompletion...
>
>
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i586
> OS: linux
> Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0
> -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.0/../readline-5.0
> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i586'
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i586-suse-linux'
> -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
> -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -march=i586
> -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -Wall -pipe -g
> -fbranch-probabilities
> uname output: Linux cboltz 2.6.11.4-21.7-default #1 Thu Jun 2 14:23:14
> UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i586-suse-linux
>
> Bash Version: 3.0
> Patch Level: 16
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Bash completion is buggy if -o nospace, -o filenames and -W are
> used together. See the commented example below.
When you specify `-o filenames', one of the things that is enabled is
filename quoting. Since `=' is one of the characters that causes word
breaks for the readline completion code, it gets quoted with a
backslash. Readline can't distinguish between completed filenames and
completions generated by arguments to `-W'.
>
> If you let one of the options away, the problem doesn't occour.
> Also -o dirnames instead of -o filenames works well.
Removing `=' from $COMP_WORDBREAKS would probably satisfy you as well.
Chet
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