[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#489720: [RFC] Re: bash-completion: Please do not expand leading tildes

[David Paleino]

Hi Morita,

Morita Sho wrote:
> When bash-completion is not installed, the leading tilde will not be
> expanded on completion.
> 
> [..]
> 
> 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.
> 
> [..]
> 
> IMHO, the tilde expansion in _expand seems needless because compgen
> correctly handles leading tildes.

I agree with you, and have committed the fix (rev1170), but I'm CCing the team
because people might be relying on ~foo being expanded to /home/foo/, and I
don't really know whether this fix might affect other software or not.

However, fix committed. I'll eventually revert it if it causes problems to
other users (i.e. please don't re-file the bug if you see ~foo re-expanded
to /home/foo/ in future versions ;) )

Kindly,
David

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