[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#630521: Bug#630521: bash-completion: no longer completes files for vi

[David Paleino]

tags 630521 unreproducible moreinfo
thanks

Hello,

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:05:07 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> This is a regression, it used to be possible to complete pretty much any
> file. Now only directories are completed for vi, or some very unusual
> files I don't have.
>
> To fix this I had to comment out the line
> 
> complete -f -X
> '*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|[rs]pm|gif|jp?(e)g|mp6|mp?(e)g|avi|asf|ogg|class)'
> vi vim gvim rvim view rview rgvim rgview gview emacs xemacs sxemacs kate
> kwrite
> 
> I am not sure what it is supposed to do but it definitely breaks editor
> completion making them totally unusable from bash.

"vi" completes on practically anything here.

That line is supposed to *exclude* those files from being completed (so that,
if you have a foo.gif, it doesn't appear as a completion for those commands).

Can you please do a 'set -x', then 'vi <TAB>', and copy-paste the output here?

Thanks,
David

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