Package: bash-completion
Version: 20080705
Severity: normal
Hi David,
as discussed in Palermo, here my bug report. It makes me crazy that so
many programs taking files or directories as arguments cannot be
completed.
Example:
cowbuilder --create --distribution etch --basepath /var/cache/pbu<TAB>
does NOT complete to /var/cache/pbuilder/, although the directory is
there.
Same with our TeX packing scripts:
perl tpm2deb-source.pl make-orig-tar --master=/src/TeX/Mas<TAB>
or
perl tpm2deb-source.pl make-orig-tar --master /src/TeX/Mas<TAB>
in both cases it never completes to /src/TeX/Master-2007.0 which is
there.
I assume that in lack of any information, in former times bash
completion did path name completion, but now it does nothing. That is
not good.
Thanks and all the best
Norbert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-rc2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages bash-completion depends on:
ii bash 3.2-4 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
bash-completion recommends no packages.
bash-completion suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Herzliche Grüße
Best wishes
Norbert
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Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian TeX Group
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