Bug#503691: bash-completion: does not complete files and directories as arguments

2009-08-17 Thread Drew Parsons
I'm seeing this bug too, and it's extraordinarily irritating. Certain commands do not allow general filename completion to proceed. Looks like some commands have specified accessible files identified by file suffix. This is not appropriate in a unix-like environment and is counterintuitive. An

Bug#503691: bash-completion: does not complete files and directories as arguments

2008-10-27 Thread Norbert Preining
Package: bash-completion Version: 20080705 Severity: normal Hi David, as discussed in Palermo, here my bug report. It makes me crazy that so many programs taking files or directories as arguments cannot be completed. Example: cowbuilder --create --distribution etch --basepath /var/cache/