Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

2011-09-04 Thread Martin von Gagern
On -10.01.-28163 20:59, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Bash-4.2 tries to leave what the >> user typed alone, but that leads to an inherently ambiguous situation: >> when do you quote the `$' in a filename (or, in this case, a directory >> name)? It could be a shell variable, and it could be a character in >

Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

2011-09-04 Thread Clark J. Wang
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > The attached patch adds a new shell option that, when enabled, is > intended to restore the bash-4.1 behavior of expanding directory names > in filenames being completed. I have done some testing, and it seems > to work the way I intend. Thi