On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: >> 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. > > I think I may have been confused. If you're not doing command completion > with the tilde-prefixed string (that is, if it's an argument to another > command already on the line), you're probably using the > bash_completion set of programmable completions, and the completion > specification for the command to which this is an argument is probably > expanding the tilde. > > I assumed you were trying to complete the above string as a command, not > an argument to a command. > > What is the full command line on which you're attempting completion?
I'm trying to complete an argument rather than a command as I just replied in the previous message.
