When entering "$HOME/" and "TAB KEY" to perform tab completion readline gets overwritten with:
$ \$HOME/ Following thread describes the problem for bash-4.2: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00296.html My current version in Gentoo and which are the latest available sources with latest available patches: =app-shells/bash-4.2_p10 =sys-libs/readline6.2_p1 -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/