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Re: ``complete -d -o default cd'' issue


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: ``complete -d -o default cd'' issue
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:39:16 -0400
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On 7/25/11 10:21 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>wrote:
> 
>> "Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Here the <TAB> cannot expand ``*.d'' to ``long-dir-name.d''. Bug?
>>
>> You need to add -o bashdefault for that.
>>
> 
> ``-o bashdefault'' works fine for me, thanks. But from the Bash manual I
> think ``-o default'' should also work:
> 
> -o default    Use readline's default filename completion if the compspec
> generates no matches.

Globbing is not part of readline's set of filename completions.  It is
implemented by the shell, hence the need for the bashdefault option.

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