[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#550676: Bug#550676: please make bash-completion falling back to path completion if nothing else is found

[David Paleino]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:54:48 +0200, arne anka wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 1:2.1-4
> Followup-For: Bug #550676
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the issue reported still exists -- i was playing around with a bunch of files
> which are all ZIP archives though with an arbitrary suffix other than .zip.
> with none of the tools (file-roller or just unzip) did a file name complete
> although, given manually both were able to open the files. as the OP wrote --
> if nothing can be completed by the compeltion mechanism, jsut fall back and
> complete the files in the current directory.

Just use Alt-/, which is the default bash shortcut for "complete on all files".

Kindly,
David

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