[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][312832] perl module completion does not work for 2nd level and beyond package items

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Bugs item #312832, was opened at 2010-11-16 23:16 by Ville Skyttä 
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Ville Skyttä  (scop-guest)
Assigned to: Guillaume Rousse (guillomovitch-guest)
Summary: perl module completion does not work for 2nd level and beyond package items 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
perl module completion in current git does not work for 2nd level (and beyond) package items, for example "perl -MFile::Sp<TAB>" returns no completions whereas it should return a bunch of File::Spec* ones.

I don't quite follow the logic there yet, but there's something wrong with the "return immediately if the base doesn't match" logic in helpers/perl - commenting that "return" out seems to fix it (and naturally makes things slower).  Changing the condition to "return if $base && $base !~ /^\Q$word/ && $word !~ /^\Q$base/;" fixes it as well but somehow that feels wrong/ugly to me at the moment and I don't know if it has undesirable side effects.  Could you have a look?

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