The problem does not come from upstream... it it caused by a patch created by canonical. debian/patches/00-fix_quote_readline_by_ref.patch:
From: JuanJo Ciarlante <j...@canonical.com> Subject: fix _quote_readline_by_ref to: - avoid escaping 1st '~' (lp: #1288314) - avoid quoting if empty, else expansion without args only shows dirs (lp: #1288031) - replace double escaping to single (eg for completing file/paths with spaces) Origin: vendor, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835 Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835 Forwarded: yes, <5328f418....@canonical.com> --- bash_completion | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- bash-completion.orig/bash_completion +++ bash-completion/bash_completion @@ -536,13 +536,24 @@ __ltrim_colon_completions() # @param $2 Name of variable to return result to _quote_readline_by_ref() { - if [[ $1 == \'* ]]; then + if [ -z "$1" ]; then + # avoid quoting if empty + printf -v $2 %s "$1" + elif [[ $1 == \'* ]]; then # Leave out first character printf -v $2 %s "${1:1}" + elif [[ $1 == ~* ]]; then + # avoid escaping first ~ + printf -v $2 ~%q "${1:1}" else printf -v $2 %q "$1" fi + # Replace double escaping ( \\ ) by single ( \ ) + # This happens always when argument is already escaped at cmdline, + # and passed to this function as e.g.: file\ with\ spaces + [[ ${!2} == *\\* ]] && printf -v $2 %s "${1//\\\\/\\}" + # If result becomes quoted like this: $'string', re-evaluate in order to # drop the additional quoting. See also: http://www.mail-archive.com/ # bash-completion-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg01942.html ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #739835 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1390061 Title: bash-completion tilde expansion every time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/1390061/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
