/ Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 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.
Well, I figured out how to get the old behavior back :-)
YMMV, Caveat user, etc.
I also fired a note off to the bash maintainer. I'll pass along
anything I find out.
*** lib/readline/complete.c~ Mon Oct 15 14:31:41 2001
--- lib/readline/complete.c Fri Nov 30 16:12:30 2001
***************
*** 1191,1195 ****
else if (s == 0 && S_ISLNK (finfo.st_mode) &&
stat (filename, &finfo) == 0 && S_ISDIR (finfo.st_mode))
! ;
#endif
else
--- 1191,1195 ----
else if (s == 0 && S_ISLNK (finfo.st_mode) &&
stat (filename, &finfo) == 0 && S_ISDIR (finfo.st_mode))
! rl_insert_text ("/");
#endif
else
Be seeing you,
norm
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http://nwalsh.com/ | are. If you do not understand: things
| are as they are.
