Package: bash
Version: 4.2-1
Severity: normal
The latest bash changes how autocomplete works. When I use TAB or
double-ESC to expand a environment variable that resolves to a directory
name, bash will show the contents of the directory, but then the command
line is repeased with "\$" prepended to the environment variable. A
second attempt to autocomplete then fails.
This means that one of the main uses of autocomplete, namely to make
searches through a directory tree, no longer works.
Example: attempt to view contents of directory and then cd into proper
subdirectory
FOO="bar"
where "/bar" is the name of a directory
# cd $FOO/[TAB]
==> expected (old) results: directory entries displayed, command line
re-displayed as "cd bar/" with cursor at end of line
Hitting TAB again will cause he dir entries to be displayed again
If we start to type the name of dir entry and hit TAB again, the
new candidate filenames displayed
==> actual (new) results: diretory entries displayed, command line
re-displayed as "cd \$FOO/"
Now if we hit TAB again, the line refuses to complete because of the
variable name is escaped
This of course will hold true if we attempt to autocomplet to a
subdirectory
I tried installing the "bash-completion" package and sourcing it, but it
does not help.
I see this thread,
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00282.html, as
well as this old bug report
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278295
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 6.5
ii dash 0.5.7-2
ii debianutils 4.0.4
ii libc6 2.13-21
ii libtinfo5 5.9-4
Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii bash-completion 1:1.3-1
Versions of packages bash suggests:
pn bash-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
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