Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-06-08 Thread Roman Rakus
On 06/07/2012 11:22 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: In reading the messages quoted above, I'm not sure some people understand the severity of the bug. I do not. And many people don't understand expansions, quoting, completions and many other... This isn't a matter of preference... its a real bug.

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-06-07 Thread Linda Walsh
Clark WANG wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:32 PM, John E. Malmberg wb8...@qsl.net wrote: Actual results: ls \$HOME/ Already discussed for quite a few times. :) For example: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-12/msg00079.html (patched attached)

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-06-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/07/2012 03:22 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: This isn't a matter of preference... its a real bug. Ex: $ ls $HOME/binTABRETURN ls: cannot access $HOME/bin: No such file or directory Yes, we know. Ergo patch 29: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2012-05/msg00148.html -- Eric

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-06-07 Thread Linda Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: On 06/07/2012 03:22 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: This isn't a matter of preference... its a real bug. Ex: $ ls $HOME/binTABRETURN ls: cannot access $HOME/bin: No such file or directory Yes, we know. Ergo patch 29: According to the the referred to discussion on

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-30 Thread DJ Mills
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:34 AM, John E. Malmberg wb8...@qsl.net wrote: On this platform, file names with $ in them tend to show up as they have special meaning. BASH-4.2$ echo *\$* GNV$BASH.DSF GNV$BASH.EXE GNV$BASH.MAP GNV$SHELL.C_FIRST GNV$VERSION.C_FIRST gnv$bash_startup.com

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-29 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/28/12 11:32 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825751 bash-4.2.24-1.fc16.i686 Please take a look at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=direxpand and see if that behaves the way you like. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-29 Thread John E. Malmberg
On 5/29/2012 7:12 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/28/12 11:32 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825751 bash-4.2.24-1.fc16.i686 Please take a look at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=direxpand and see if that behaves the way you like. Thanks,

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-29 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/29/12 8:34 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote: In the discussion that you referenced earlier, it mentions that it was considered making this behavior controlled by a settable parameter. Is that implemented with this patch? Is this eventually going to be part of an official patch? Yes and

Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-28 Thread John E. Malmberg
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825751 bash-4.2.24-1.fc16.i686 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Activate a terminal running a bash shell 2. ls $HOME/TAB 3. Actual results: ls \$HOME/ I get the directory get expanded result on Bash 1.4.8 (VMS special build) and on Bash 3.2.25(1)-release.

Re: Red-Hat Bug 825751 - bash-completion fails on environment variables

2012-05-28 Thread Clark WANG
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:32 PM, John E. Malmberg wb8...@qsl.net wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825751 bash-4.2.24-1.fc16.i686 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Activate a terminal running a bash shell 2. ls $HOME/TAB 3. Actual results: ls \$HOME/ Already discussed for quite