Re: damaged behaviour for completion of words with variables

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/17/11 6:52 AM, wiebittewas wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 10
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       typing 'echo $PWD/[TAB]' results in 'echo \$PWD/' instead of
>       'echo <current-path>/'
>       (all without single quotes of course...)
> 
>       This behaviour doesn't exist at least in bash-4.1.5
> 
>       ( bash-4.2.10 comes here with ubuntu-11.10,
>         bash-4.1.5 comes here with ubuntu-10.04 )
> 
>       Copying old version of bash to new system brings right
>       behaviour. If you think the new behaviour is right, then
>       there should be an easy way, to revert it by an option,
>       because at least for me bash-4.2.10 is unusable with this
>       behaviour.

This bash-4.2 change has been discussed extensively on several
occasions.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00007.html
contains a basic summary and includes an earlier version of a patch that
adds a `direxpand' shell option to restore the 4.1 behavior.  I've
attached the current version of that patch to this message.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-09/msg00015.html adds
a little more detail.  The earliest discussion was in this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html .

You can download a version of bash with patches 1-20 plus the direxpand
patch applied from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-direxpand.tar.gz


> For questions or replies please use my eMail directly, because I'm
> currently not reading any bug-lists for bash.

You should, if only to discover what has already happened.

Chet
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