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List: bash-bug
Subject: Re: menu-complete command fails to complete file names
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date: 2009-08-10 19:26:27
Message-ID: 4A807463.8040602 () case ! edu
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Jérôme REYBERT wrote:
> I bind the "menu-complete" command to <TAB> key with the following line
> in my .bashrc:
> bind '"\t"':menu-complete
>
> menu-complete is a bash command. It allows to bash to display in a
> different way completions. Instead of display a list of completion,
> possible completions rolls on your current line. I am pretty sure that
> the problem comes from bash, not bash-completion. Setting bash to
> verbose, auto_completion commands seem the same with "complete"
> (standard completion) and "menu-complete".
>
> menu-complete is not able to complete file names. However, it can
> complete directories names. Here to reproduce:
> $ mkdir bar1 bar2
> $ touch foo1 foo2
> $ ls ba<TAB>
> $ ls bar1/ # OK
> $ ls fo<TAB> # nothing append
Thanks for the report. This has already been fixed for bash-4.1.
Chet
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