[Bash-completion-devel] scp remote path completion broken?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sunday 06 September 2009, Freddy Vulto wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Ville Skyttä<ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> > scp's remote path completion appears broken to me - the ":" to _get_cword
> > does not seem to affect anything and thus the hostname always disappears
> > and things go south from there.  On a brief look, it seems to me that
> > _get_cword doesn't actually do anything with the argument given to it.
> >
> > This is on Fedora 11, bash 4.0.23.  Did I overlook something?
>
> I can confirm the same problem on Ubuntu, bash-4.0-28.

Doh, I didn't remember I have already filed a bug for this earlier; it just 
only semi-recently started to actually bite here when I upgraded to Fedora 11.
https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=311702&group_id=100114&atid=413095

If nobody can remember/decipher exactly what the problematic commit was 
supposed to fix, I suggest we just revert it and see what breaks.