Re: $PWD completion wrong

[Harald Koenig]

On Oct 21, Chet Ramey wrote:

> On 10/21/11 2:42 PM, Harald Koenig wrote:
> 
> If you read further in that thread, you'll find a message I sent out on
> 9/2 containing a patch that adds a `direxpand' option.  The new option

aaah! the web mailing list browswer didn't step from february to march with 
"thread next" :-((( 
thanks!!

> is intended to restore the bash-4.1 behavior of performing word expansion
> on variables in directory names when completing.  It works pretty well;
> there are a couple of rough edges that will be worked out.
> 
> Look for <4E612F5B.5040003@case.edu>.

yes, that's what I was looking for!  
a very quick first test with 4.2.8 and "shopt -s direxpand" looks like 
that's what I'll use for now!

I'll forward your hints to that mail/patch to suse and see what they'll do;-)


thanks a lot for your quick help and solution!!

Harald Koenig
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