On 3/10/13 5:26 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote:
> If you have "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" in your .inputrc, typing
> this sequence in bash (in a directory containing some non-hidden files):
>
> echo *<tab>
>
> Results in the list of possible matches being displayed (as expected),
> but the command line is then edited to:
>
> echo \*
>
> Which is probably not what the user wanted.
Thanks for the report. The bash default completion code needs to treat
TAB with show-all-if-ambigous on the same as straight TAB. This will be
fixed in the next release.
Chet
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