On 8/11/11 6:23 AM, Martin von Gagern wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I often get a bash message about new mail during command line completion.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> Type "ls ~/.bas" and press tab.
>
> Expected result:
> Command line completed to "ls ~/.bash" or whatever is right.
>
> Actual result:
> If new mails have arrived, the mail check is performed when pressing
> tab, rendering the whole command line like this:
>
> $ ls ~/.basYou have mail in /var/mail/user
> h
>
> This is a real problem for both readability and subsequent editing of
> the command line.
I suspect that you have a completion defined for `ls' and it's running a
command or process substitution that's causing the mail check. Can you
run `set -x', then attempt the completion again and post the results?
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