[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#521406: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

debian at ginguppin.de debian at ginguppin.de
Fri Mar 27 11:46:18 UTC 2009


Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal

completing pathes like ~/foo to /home/username/foo is usually unwanted -- and there seems to be non configuration to disable it gracefully.

see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bash-completion/+bug/324505
the same issue and a proposed patch (simply preventing expansion).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_DK.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii  bash                          3.2-5      The GNU Bourne Again SHell

bash-completion recommends no packages.

bash-completion suggests no packages.

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