[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#587095: no longer does ~username completion

[Marcin Szewczyk]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 02:37:38PM +0100, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> $ ~ro<tab> # does work just fine - it gets completed into ~root
> $ ls ~ro<tab> # something is wrong here. You can press <tab> to your
>   death, and it won't get completed
> 
> So it does work, but not when completing argument for command (what
> perhaps most users would want to do).

Probably it's due to a change between
e5a9b6220e93ca656fd9774c6aefa78241edca6f and
f9748115fb4b2950fb4df7535fb723c4affde078 commits in the repo[1]. In
particular some changes to the bash_completion file.

Earlier in the _filedir there was:
_expand || return 0
now it looks like this:
__expand_tilde_by_ref cur



I would like to propose a patch (attached).



[1] git://git.debian.org/git/bash-completion/debian.git


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