On 3/15/17 1:54 AM, r...@arista.com wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> dabbrev-expand supposed to menu complete using history where most
> recent entries are presented first. However, it seems like the entries are
> sorted.
> This is from the release notes of bash-4.1: "Changes to dabbrev-expand
> to make it more `emacs-like': no space appended after matches, completions
> are not sorted, and most recent history entries are presented first.
> This bug has been verified on bash 4.4 as well as on bash 4.3.
I can't reproduce this on bash-4.4. If I bind dabbrev-expand to, say,
"\C-x\C-d" and follow the steps in your report, I cycle through ~/tmp3,
~/tmp2, and ~/tmp1 as possible completions when I hit C-xC-d.
You might check whether or not you have a programmable completion for `ls'
that could be sorting the matches.
Chet
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