Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 02/24/2011 03:14 PM, Michael Kalisz wrote: >> $ echo $PWD/<TAB> >> will expand the $PWD variable to your current directory >> >> while in bash, version 4.2.0(1)-release: >> >> $ echo $PWD/<TAB> >> will just escape the $ in front of the $ variable i.e: >> >> $ echo \$PWD/ >> The shell-expand-line (Ctrl-Alt-e) works but before I could use just TAB >> >> Any hints why? Any way to get the 4.1 behavior in 4.2? >> >> Can someone confirm... Is this a bug or a feature? > > I'm not the developer, but in my mind, this is a welcome feature.
Looks like you didn't read what Michael wrote. > TAB-completion should NOT modify what I typed, Except that it does. $PWD/ and \$PWD/ are quite different things. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
