[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312825] Bash completion displays incorrect choices when COMPREPLY words contain "/" characters after the longest common prefix

Sat Nov 13 00:41:16 UTC 2010

Bugs item #312825, was opened at 2010-11-13 00:41
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Bash completion displays incorrect choices when COMPREPLY words contain "/" characters after the longest common prefix 
Distribution: Ubuntu
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 

Initial Comment:
Anonymous message posted by tim at gfxmonk.net

I'm using a completion function to complete the argument to `0launch` from a list of known URLs. Given the input 'http://g', my COMPREPLY array contains the following array (each line is an element):
http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/appengine-auth.xml
http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/dbus-python.xml
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parallel.git/plain/packager/0install/parallel.xml

When I press tab twice, bash shows me the following possible completions (since all options start with what I've already entered):

$ 0launch 'http://g<tab><tab>
    appengine-auth.xml                  dbus-python.xml            parallel.xml

This is not the correct list of completions, it seems to be displaying only the part of each completion after the final "/". If I actually typed the first letter from one of these options, it would be wrong (and would not complete any further).

Note that there seems to be nothing wrong with the contents of the COMPREPLY array itself, as when I type:

$ 0launch 'http://gf<tab>

It successfully completes the argument to the longest common prefix, which is 'http://gfxmonk.net/dist/0install/

Bash version: 1:1.2-2ubuntu1

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