On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: >> If I have the following in the command line, >> >> ~/.bash >> >> when I type <TAB>, it will become /home/my_user_name/.bash >> >> I'm wondering if it is possible to configure bash command completion, >> so that it will still be '~/.bash' > > You don't say what version of bash you're using, but bash-3.2 and bash-4.0 > both preserve the tilde by default.
Here are my bash version and /etc/inputrc. I don't find where it changes the default behavior $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. $ cat /etc/inputrc # /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline # See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information. # Be 8 bit clean. set input-meta on set output-meta on # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key, # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters. # set convert-meta off # try to enable the application keypad when it is called. Some systems # need this to enable the arrow keys. # set enable-keypad on # see /usr/share/doc/bash/inputrc.arrows for other codes of arrow keys # do not bell on tab-completion # set bell-style none # set bell-style visible # some defaults / modifications for the emacs mode $if mode=emacs # allow the use of the Home/End keys "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line # allow the use of the Delete/Insert keys "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert # mappings for "page up" and "page down" to step to the beginning/end # of the history # "\e[5~": beginning-of-history # "\e[6~": end-of-history # alternate mappings for "page up" and "page down" to search the history # "\e[5~": history-search-backward # "\e[6~": history-search-forward # mappings for Ctrl-left-arrow and Ctrl-right-arrow for word moving "\e[1;5C": forward-word "\e[1;5D": backward-word "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word "\e\e[C": forward-word "\e\e[D": backward-word $if term=rxvt "\e[8~": end-of-line "\eOc": forward-word "\eOd": backward-word $endif # for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/Debian xterm # "\eOH": beginning-of-line # "\eOF": end-of-line # for freebsd console # "\e[H": beginning-of-line # "\e[F": end-of-line $endif $ cat ~/.inputrc set editing-mode vi set bell-style none "\e[A": history-search-backward ## up-arrow
