bad bash tab completion

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Fri Aug 10 16:54:00 GMT 2012


On 08/10/2012 01:14 AM, Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having this problem with bash for about half a year now. I
> can't remember the specific upgrade that caused it, but that's around
> the time frame.
> 
> So the issue is with tab completion, and looks something like this:
> 
> snapshot 1:
> 
> $ cd ~/../
> 
> snapshot 2 (after tab-tab):
> 
> $ cd \~/../

Most likely a bug in upstream bash and/or upstream bash-completion.
Both of these packages are a bit long in the tooth in cygwin; I really
need to find time to upgrade the distro to the latest versions of these
packages, which may fix the issue right there.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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