Hi On my newer systems (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2), I had noticed a problem with tab completion.
I can't reproduce it on my system which has readline-5.2-13 (versus readline-5.1-1.1), so I'm guessing it's fixed in readline-5.2, but the CHANGES list doesn't explicitly mention anything like this, so I thought I'd mention it anyway. > echo $BASH_VERSION 3.2.25(1)-release > rpm -q bash bash-3.2-21.el5 > rpm -q readline readline-5.1-1.1 > mkdir tmp > mkdir tmp/foo.1 > mkdir tmp/foo.2 > cd tmp/<TAB> foo.1/ foo.2/ > cd tmp/foo. The cursor is placed immediately after the prompt (>), rather than at the end of the completion (.). Disabling either horizontal-scroll-mode or print-completions-horizontally in ~/.inputrc makes it work OK. I chose to disable horizontal-scroll-mode.