[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#616018: Bug#616018: bash_completion adds a space at the end of every diretory name, and other issues with completing (e.g. sudo)

[David Paleino]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:14:43 +0100 (CET), Robert C. Helling wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, David Paleino wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:22:32 +0100, Robert Helling wrote:
> >
> >> It seems that lines 11/12
> >>
> >>     COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]:-} $( compgen -f -X "$xspec" -- "$cur" ) \
> >>             $( compgen -d -- "$cur" ) )
> >>
> >> are the offenders. Unfortunately, this looks like line noise to me...
> >
> > Robert,
> > please read Ville's message
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616018#10
> >
> > It's probably acroread's completion fault.
> 
> I was referring to that mail. The two lines I quoted are from 
> /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh
> 
> I just figured I need to comment out those two lines for the bug to go 
> away for me. It is my understanding, that acroread is not run, it is just 
> the file that handles completions for lines starting with
> 
> $ acroread ...
> 
> But the bug occurs also for
> 
> $ ls /e[TAB]
> [..]

Yes, because "acroread.sh" redefines completion functions used by each other
completion installed.

My mail meant: acroread.sh is not shipped by us. It's shipped by acroread's
package, thus we can't really do anything :/

Kindly,
David

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