[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#615134: Bug#615134: mutt: does not complete any aliases anymore

[Helmut Grohne]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:09:20AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 12:16 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> 
> >This in turn is due to the fact that the ~ is not expanded. Not quoting
> >$file would solve this but it would probably lead to other problems.
> 
> I played with a test case outside of the mutt completion and think
> removing the quoting would not actually help.  But adding a

You are correct here.

> __expand_tilde_by_ref call probably would; could you test this?
> 
> --- a/completions/mutt
> +++ b/completions/mutt
> @@ -63,2 +63,3 @@ _muttconffiles()
>          for file in "${newconffiles[@]}"; do
> +            __expand_tilde_by_ref file
>              [[ ! -f "$file" || "${sofar/ ${file} / }" != "$sofar" ]] &&

Indeed this is half of the solution. It correctly expands

source ~/somefile

while it still does not expand

source "~/somefile"

which is read by mutt as well. Looks like we have a new test case. ;-)

Helmut

PS: Yes, I could simply remove the quotes, but this regression will
probably hit others as well, so let's pursue it.