I'm seeing this bug too, and it's extraordinarily irritating. Certain commands do not allow general filename completion to proceed. Looks like some commands have specified accessible files identified by file suffix. This is not appropriate in a unix-like environment and is counterintuitive.
An example is opening a data file into OpenOffice Calc. ASCII data files will commonly have a .txt or .dat file suffix (or .out or .output). Typing $ oocalc <TAB>, the existing data files are not prompted for completion. With gnumeric, by way of comparison, $ gnumeric <TAB> will complete, for instance, to $ gnumeric datafile.dat Test it yourself simply with "touch datafile.dat" in an empty directory. There are other situations where tab completion behaves counterintuitively, presumeably due to the same underlying mechanism. The example I have in mind here is reading log files using zless. I habitually use zless instead of less because many files in /var/log, and also text doc files in /usr/share/doc, are gzipped. zless can equally read both compressed and uncompressed text files (less can only read uncompressed). So reading, for instance /var/log/syslog. It's uncompressed. But when I type $ zless /var/log/sys<TAB> instead of completing to /var/log/syslog as expected, bash tab completiong instead gives $ zless /var/log/syslog. By putting in the . it's skipped past the most recent uncompressed log file and only presents the older log files. Actually in this example it's even more complicated than compressed vs uncompressed. With a second <TAB> to show completions of /var/log/syslog., I get $ zless /var/log/syslog. syslog.1 syslog.3.gz syslog.5.gz syslog.7.gz syslog.2.gz syslog.4.gz syslog.6.gz So /var/log/syslog.1 is offered, but it is uncompressed. Only /var/log/syslog is missing in this example. In general it seems something is wrong with bash-completions application of file suffices. Perhaps it shouldn't use them at all, should allow any file to be offered as an argument to any program (which is, in my opinion, normal unix behaviour. File suffices are a microsoft windows invention). Drew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
