[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#511788: fixed in bash-completion 1:1.2-1

Antoine r2rien at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 10:22:13 UTC 2010


Hi, thanks for supplying bash-completion package and for the working bug 
fix.
However I see a side effect, which I don't know if it is a feature or not ?

Before this fix when trying to complete a command like "chown us[tab]" 
it was completing, if a user "username" existing,  with "chown 
username\: " thus, as the bug report mentioned, adding a 
slash+vertical-dots+space at the end
Since this fix, there is only a space added, wich is correcting the 
reported bug

However, before the fix, if you backspace deleted the extra, and then 
typed a dot "." and then triggering [tab] completion again, it would 
complete with available groups like for example from "chown 
username.group[tab]" to "chown username.groupname"
Since the fix, there is not anymore groupname completion

I don't know if it is intended, as maybe it is solutioning the "stange 
character" from initial bug report, but personally I miss now the 
groupname completion...

cheers and thanks again





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