[Bash-completion-devel] Bug with regex for bash-completion hosts-file

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Giordon Stark <kratsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is also broken in 2.1 -- if you run with export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 --
> you will see that the regexes using the tabs don't work at all.

If you consider something a bug, I suggest filing specific reports
about your findings at
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/bash-completion/ -- in this case
preferably along with patches; I'm not aware of any active contributor
using/working on a POSIX environment so without bug reports it is
quite likely that things will fall through the cracks. On the other
hand I'm not sure if others will consider it a bug if our stuff
doesn't work in POSIX mode. This is bash completion after all, and I
don't think it's unreasonable to expect bash features to be available.