Bash completion in Current

dunric · 03-04-2011, 06:44 AM

Hello,

does anybody else experienced the new strange/screwed behavior of updated bash-completion ver. 1.3 ?
F.E. instead of completing directory name with slash at the end and be ready to continue to complete its contents it finishes with directory name completed only. So for example if you would like to display contents of a file placed in a subdir with the less program, you have to press backspace and add '/' character to continue and that really sucks.
Most of core utils, less, tar and other tools are affected.

Can anybody else confirm this behaviour ? Unfortunately I've no mood and time to explore and fix it by myself :-/

ponce · 03-04-2011, 07:25 AM

try this (already fixed on slackbuilds.org

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bathory · 03-04-2011, 07:30 AM

Quote:

F.E. instead of completing directory name with slash at the end and be ready to continue to complete its contents it finishes with directory name completed only. So for example if you would like to display contents of a file placed in a subdir with the less program, you have to press backspace and add '/' character to continue and that really sucks.
Most of core utils, less, tar and other tools are affected.

Can anybody else confirm this behaviour ?

I've been through this too and "fixed" it by (re)moving /etc/bash_completion

Cheers

dunric · 03-04-2011, 10:29 AM

Thx ponce and other guys.
So the bug/misfeature is already known and a fix does exist. Good to hear.

ponce · 03-04-2011, 10:47 AM

yes, it should be a problem related to a bad acroread bash completion script (the fix is trivial).