Re: Autocompletion problems with nounset and arrays

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/19/16 2:54 PM, Siteshwar Vashisht wrote:
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Chet Ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>> To: "Eric Pruitt" <eric.pruitt@gmail.com>, bug-bash@gnu.org, 
>> bash@packages.debian.org
>> Cc: "chet ramey" <chet.ramey@case.edu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 11:24:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: Autocompletion problems with nounset and arrays
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  I will fix this before bash-4.4 is released.
> 
> I have built bash from devel branch and I am still able to reproduce this 
> bug. Also, this bug is reproducible if I try to complete path names instead 
> of arrays.

Sorry, I am afraid you misunderstood my response.  The original report
concerned bash's built-in word completion, and the change you refer to
fixes that case.  It's not visible to users, since it changes the
setting temporarily in a place where users cannot do it.

You're using the bash_completion package, and it does not handle running
with `-u' enabled very well.  I don't think bash should be changing
something where it ends up being user-visible to compensate for a case
the script didn't anticipate -- that's the script's business.

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