** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655849/+attachment/1675470/+files/Dependencies.txt
** Description changed: Binary package hint: bash-completion - - Package: bash-completion - Further packages involved: mutt, bash - - General information - ================ - Release: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS - - $ apt-cache policy bash-completion - bash-completion: - Installed: 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 - Candidate: 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 - Version table: - *** 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 0 - 500 http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/ubuntu/archive/ lucid/main Packages - 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Expected vs observed behaviour =========================== When typing $ mutt -f =k<TAB> bash-completion should offer mailboxes starting with "k" Instead, bash gives the error message $ mutt -f =kbash: ~/.mutt/muttquery: No such file or directory Bug 1: Completion produces a bash error Bug 2: Completion executes mutt's query_command, which is intended for retrieving email addresses, not mail boxes Analysis ======= - Pressing <TAB> invokes bash completion, which calls "_muttquery" from /etc/bash_completion.d/mutt - "_muttquery" calls "mutt -Q query_command", which in my case returns the string query_command="~/.mutt/muttquery '%s'" - "_muttquery" extracts the substring "~/.mutt/muttquery '%s'" (without surrounding quotes), replaces %s by "'\''k'\''" (without surrounding quotes), and then executes the bash command '~/.mutt/muttquery' ''\''k'\''' Since the tilde is quoted by single quotes, bash does not expand it to the home dir, but interprets it literally. Hence the observed bash error message. Bug 1: Completion should not single-quote tildes which are expected to be expanded by bash. Bug 2: Completion should not call _muttquery since there is no mail address expected after "-f =" ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 6 18:08:40 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_IE.utf8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_IE.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: bash-completion ** Description changed: Binary package hint: bash-completion Expected vs observed behaviour - =========================== + ============================== When typing $ mutt -f =k<TAB> bash-completion should offer mailboxes starting with "k" Instead, bash gives the error message $ mutt -f =kbash: ~/.mutt/muttquery: No such file or directory Bug 1: Completion produces a bash error Bug 2: Completion executes mutt's query_command, which is intended for retrieving email addresses, not mail boxes Analysis - ======= + ======== - Pressing <TAB> invokes bash completion, which calls "_muttquery" from /etc/bash_completion.d/mutt - "_muttquery" calls "mutt -Q query_command", which in my case returns the string query_command="~/.mutt/muttquery '%s'" - "_muttquery" extracts the substring "~/.mutt/muttquery '%s'" (without surrounding quotes), replaces %s by "'\''k'\''" (without surrounding quotes), and then executes the bash command '~/.mutt/muttquery' ''\''k'\''' Since the tilde is quoted by single quotes, bash does not expand it to the home dir, but interprets it literally. Hence the observed bash error message. Bug 1: Completion should not single-quote tildes which are expected to be expanded by bash. Bug 2: Completion should not call _muttquery since there is no mail address expected after "-f =" ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 6 18:08:40 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_IE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: bash-completion -- /etc/bash_completion.d/mutt quotes tilde which cannot be expanded by bash (or: why is query_command invoked at this place at all?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655849 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
