Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not strictly speaking a debian question, I suppose, but...
>
> The last apt-get upgrade that I performed installed a new version of
> bash (2.05a.0(1)-release). Since this upgrade, I've discovered that
> tab completion of a symbolic link that points to a directory no longer
> automatically includes the trailing slash.
>
> For example, on my disk /sourceforge -> /projects/sourceforge so if I
> type "/pro[tab]", I get "/projects/", but if I type "/sour[tab]", I
> get "/sourceforge" (without the trialing slash). If I type tab again,
> I get the trailing slash. (There's no file called sourceforge in /).
>
> This behavior is consistent on all symlinks to directories, and I find
> it exceptionally annoying. A quick scan of the man page doesn't reveal
> any option that obviously would effect this behavior (and why doesn't
> bash_2.05a-2_i386.deb include an info page, no, that's a separate
> issue :-)
>
> Is there a setting to "fix" this behavior?
I don't know if there is a way to revert back to the old behavior, but
this change is mentioned in /usr/share/doc/bash/changelog.gz:
c. The completion code no longer appends a `/' or ` ' to a match when
completing a symbolic link that resolves to a directory name, unless
the match does not add anything to the word being completed. This
means that a tab will complete the word up to the full name, but not
add anything, and a subsequent tab will add a slash.
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Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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