Re: Strange behavior in command completion

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.05b
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> 
> When using readline completion for commands, sometimes completion
> stops too early, ending a directory name with a space.

Try this patch, and see if it does the right thing:

*** ../bash-2.05b/bashline.c    Tue May  7 15:52:42 2002
--- bashline.c  Wed Jul 24 12:22:57 2002
***************
*** 1053,1057 ****
--- 1053,1061 ----
          if (matches == (char **)NULL)
            rl_ignore_some_completions_function = bash_ignore_filenames;
+ #if 0
          else if (matches[1] == 0 && *matches[0] != '/')
+ #else
+         else if (matches[1] == 0 && absolute_pathname (matches[0]) == 0)
+ #endif
            /* Turn off rl_filename_completion_desired so readline doesn't
               append a slash if there is a directory with the same name

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/