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

[David Paleino]

tags 521406 wontfix
thanks

Hello,

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:46:04 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Friday 27 March 2009, debian at ginguppin.de wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> We had the expansion disabled for a while and it resulted in things breaking, 
> so the expansion is back and I don't personally think it's going away any
> time soon.  See for example http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-
> completion-devel/2009-February/000973.html

As already explained by Ville, we won't fix this bug, at least in the near
future.

Kindly,
David

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