On Sun 01 Dec 2019 at 13:01:18 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Lately when I press tab on the command line, I get something strange. Today, > I simply pressed tab on an otherwise blank command line, and I got the > following: > > It happens in only one tab of one konsole, so I'm sure I can get rid of it by > quitting that tab, but I'm curious to know if anyone else has seen something > similar. It almost looks like it is echoing the actual commands involved in > the tab completion. > > (I substituted ellipsis for part of the path, but the same thing occurs > regardless of the path. I'm using bash in Wheezy.) > > <quote> > rhk@s19:/rhk/.../sciteSource$ + local compdir=./completions > + [[ /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion == */* ]] > + compdir=/usr/share/bash-completion/completions > + . /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ > + complete -F _minimal '' > + return 124 > </quote>
Type "set +x" and this tracing should disappear. If not, then "set +v" should do it. How did set -x get set? Possibly you ran a script that didn't remember to unset it after setting it. For example, my ~/.xsession starts with set -x and ends with set +x. Cheers, David.
