[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#489720: bash-completion: Please do not expand leading tildes
Morita Sho
morita-pub-en-debian at inz.sakura.ne.jp
Mon Jul 7 11:41:37 UTC 2008
Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi,
When bash-completion is not installed, the leading tilde will not be
expanded on completion.
$ ls ~testuser/testfile
/home/testuser/testfile
$ ls ~testuser/testf[TAB]
=> ~testuser/testfile
However, when bash-completion is installed, the leading tilde will be
expanded on completion because _expand function performs the tilde
expansion. That is slightly annoying.
$ ls ~testuser/testf[TAB]
=> /home/testuser/testfile
IMHO, the tilde expansion in _expand seems needless because compgen
correctly handles leading tildes.
I suggest following patch.
--- bash_completion.orig 2008-07-07 14:07:28.000000000 +0900
+++ bash_completion 2008-07-07 17:28:59.000000000 +0900
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
# expand ~username type directory specifications
if [[ "$cur" == \~*/* ]]; then
- eval cur=$cur
+ return
elif [[ "$cur" == \~* ]]; then
cur=${cur#\~}
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -P '~' -u $cur ) )
Regards,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii bash 3.2-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
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