Sorry, I tried 4.2-29(2) at home and it DOES correctly complete '$SRC/<TAB>' - of courrse, it helps if $SRC contains the name of an existing directory, which it did not at work. Thanks ! a most interesting list . Next Question : - any plans to allow us to export array or associative store variables ? ie. represent them in *environ passed to programs with an integration with glibc "getenv()" to support this ? Thanks & Regards, Jason
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi Eric - thanks for your response, but bash-4.2.29(2), just built from > latest patches from gnu on x86_64 ubuntu, does NOT > "restore the old behavior" , but now refuses to tab-expand at > all - 'cat $SRC/<TAB>' on the command line still produces no > output. Is there some option I need to give to enable it? Thanks! > > On 5 Jul 2012 13:24, "Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> On 07/05/2012 04:58 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: >> >> > Now it changes the input string into >> > 'less \$SRC/' and prevents tab expansion >> > as would be done without use of any variables. >> > Would anyone know how to restore the old behavior >> > with bash 4.2.2 + readline 6.2 (linux ubuntu 12.04) ? >> >> Yep - upgrade to bash 4.2.29 (that is, patchlevel 2 is missing the fix >> in patchlevel 29 that restores the behavior you want). >> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-029 >> >> This topic comes up frequently on this list. >> >> -- >> Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 >> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org >> >> >> >