Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-19 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:55:26PM -0500, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: I reported it precisely because the characters you mentionned (and all other 'special' chars i know) are working perfectly. '[' and ']' are the only chars I have problems with even if they are properly escaped. Oops, you're

Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-19 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 11/19/05, Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:55:26PM -0500, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: I reported it precisely because the characters you mentionned (and all other 'special' chars i know) are working perfectly. '[' and ']' are the only chars I have problems

Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-19 Thread Han Boetes
Arnaud Bergeron wrote: About 4 new per week. Current total: about 650 It's because I download anime and all groups put their names in the filename inside []. That's why it's bugging me. Anyway enough noise for now. In that case, consider using zsh for your shell. # Han

Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-18 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
I noticed that, using ksh, if you try to tab-complete any filename that has a '[' in it while there are more than one file in the directory will fail. Simple example: $ mkdir test $ cd test $ touch [a] [b] $ pico \[a at the last line, if you type tab, the system beeps and nothing else happens.

Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-18 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:53:38PM -0500, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: I noticed that, using ksh, if you try to tab-complete any filename that has a '[' in it while there are more than one file in the directory will fail. Simple example: [...] So this leads to my question. Is it a design feature,

Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-18 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
On 11/18/05, Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 03:53:38PM -0500, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: I noticed that, using ksh, if you try to tab-complete any filename that has a '[' in it while there are more than one file in the directory will fail. Simple example:

Re: Possible bug in ksh tab completion

2005-11-18 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Arnaud Bergeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for now, completion won't work for some pathological cases ('{', '@', and other unusual characters). I reported it precisely because the characters you mentionned (and all other 'special' chars i know) are working perfectly. '[' and ']' are