Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/

2014-01-15 Thread Diggory Hardy
Thanks Chris. So the way I read it is that many people didn't like bash 4.1 behaviour (expansion), but the fact that a $ is replaced with \$ in 4.2 is a bug no one knows how to fix. Is this correct? (I don't want expansion either.) Regards, Diggory On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:57:03 Chris

Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/

2014-01-15 Thread Diggory Hardy
On Tuesday 14 January 2014 10:57:46 Chris Down wrote: > On 2014-01-13 20:42:39 -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > > You can set the `direxpand' option and probably get around most of this, > > with the change that variables will be expanded upon completion, as in > > bash-4.1. > > Er, somehow I missed thi

Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/

2014-01-15 Thread Chet Ramey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/15/14 5:07 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote: > Thanks Chris. > > So the way I read it is that many people didn't like bash 4.1 behaviour > (expansion), but the fact that a $ is replaced with \$ in 4.2 is a bug no one > knows how to fix. > > Is this cor

Re: tab expansion of $HOME/ to \$HOME/

2014-01-15 Thread Diggory Hardy
Sorry Chet, for some reason I didn't see your reply until after I'd replied to Chris. On Wednesday 15 January 2014 07:50:09 Chet Ramey wrote: > On 1/15/14 5:07 AM, Diggory Hardy wrote: > > Thanks Chris. > > > > So the way I read it is that many people didn't like bash 4.1 behaviour > > (expansio

Re: Including \t, \T or \A at beginning of PS1 causes line wrap issues

2014-01-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 1/15/14 12:14 AM, dran...@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: > Bash Version: 4.2 > Patch Level: 45 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Including the current time in the prompt causes line wrap issues on the > command line. This is apparently a regression because for at least 4 out of 5