[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#463969: bash-completion: The bug seems to still present in 20080617.5

[David Paleino]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:23:10 +0900, Morita Sho wrote:

> Thank you.
> gdb completion now completes "foob[TAB]" to "foobar" as I expected.
> 
> However it still not work in following case.
> 
> $ mkdir sourcecode
> $ ls
> sourcecode
> $ gdb sour[TAB]
>      => completes "source". I want to complete "sourcecode".
> 
> It seems the completion does not work as expected when the completing word 
> matches any command name. ("source" is a bash's builtin command.)

This is how gdb completion is intended to work -- commands have precedence over
anything else. It's more common doing:

$ gdb <command in $PATH>

than

$ gdb <directory with a name starting with the same letters as [..]>

I hope you get my point.

Kindly,
David

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