Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-12-11 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/11/12 6:38 PM, njhwang wrote: > I actually did this with a stock Ubuntu .bashrc/PS1 setting, and also tried > it with no .bashrc at all and also tried completely clearing PS1, none of > which had any effect on this issue. Any other ideas? Thanks You don't have the ncurses library installed.

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-12-11 Thread njhwang
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Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-12-11 Thread Roman Rakus
hat the root cause might be? -- View this message in context: http://gnu-bash.2382.n7.nabble.com/tab-completion-with-variable-expansion-broken-tp10798p11122.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com. I would check PS1 especially if you have correctly escaped non-printing characters. RR

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-12-11 Thread njhwang
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Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/15/12 1:32 PM, Aharon Robbins wrote: > Is there something that can be done for 4.2.24 (/bin/bash on Ubuntu 12.04)? Regrettably, nothing other than upgrading to at least bash-4.2 patch 29, or requesting that Ubuntu (really Debian) do so. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to ler

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/15/12 11:26 AM, William F Hammond wrote: >> If you indeed are using bash-4.2.37, you can enable variable expansion >> by running `shopt -s direxpand'. This will produce the behavior you >> want. >> >> I'm wondering if you've got programmable completion enabled, or whether >> you're running

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-15 Thread Aharon Robbins
In article , Chet Ramey wrote: >On 10/14/12 8:52 AM, William F Hammond wrote: >> >> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: >> Machine: i686 >> OS: linux-gnu >> Compiler: gcc >> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' >-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -D

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-15 Thread William F Hammond
Chet -- Many thanks for your reply. You write: > On 10/14/12 8:52 AM, William F Hammond wrote: >> >> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: >> Machine: i686 >> OS: linux-gnu >> Compiler: gcc >> Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' >> -DCONF_

Re: tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-14 Thread Chet Ramey
On 10/14/12 8:52 AM, William F Hammond wrote: > > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' > -

tab completion with variable expansion broken

2012-10-14 Thread William F Hammond
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/src/gnu/share/locale