> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 7
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When enter in console "ls $HOME/" and press TAB for
> completion, then bash add slash for special characters like $ { }
> When I back to wersion 4.1_p10 then problem is gone. Problem
> also exists with 4.2_p6 and 4.2_p1 (these veriosn I have checked).
The difference is that bash-4.1 expanded $HOME and left the expansion
as part of the replacement text. Bash-4.2 tries to leave what the
user typed alone, but that leads to an inherently ambiguous situation:
when do you quote the `$' in a filename (or, in this case, a directory
name)? It could be a shell variable, and it could be a character in
the filename.
The bash-4.1 solution, though it modified what the user typed, did not
result in any ambiguity. A filename was a filename, and if it contained
characters that needed to be quoted, readline did so.
I might be able to finesse this issue and retain the bash-4.2 behavior
by changing state when rewriting the directory name for opendir(2), but
I have to think about it some more.
Chet
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