I believe there is a bug on line 1587 of /etc/bash_completion, the "-o default" on that line should be changed to "-o filenames".
I haven't checked if 10.10 had "-o default". If it did, then I expect the changed behaviour was due to a change in the readline library. "-o default" means "tell readline to do what it thinks is default", and that may have worked in 10.10 but not in 11.04, due to a readline library change. So I think it's better to say "-o filenames" which tells readline what we want. The reason why it works OK for root but not for the normal user is, the /etc/bash-completion script is called by $HOME/.bashrc, and this call is present in the user's .bashrc but commented out in root's .bashrc (at least on the system that I recently upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04). I'm getting bash completion problems and I never had acroread installed on this system, so it can't be acroread in my case. With "-o default", if I type: less /t <tab> it expands to: less /tmp (space) instead of less /tmp/ (but "cd /t <tab>" is OK) "complete" is documented in "man bash" under the heading SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS. For "-o default", it says "Use readline's default filename completion if the compspec generates no matches." For "-o filenames", it says "Tell readline that the compspec generates filenames, so it can perform any filename-specific processing (like adding a slash to directory names, quoting special characters, or suppressing trailing spaces)." I tried changing the "-o default" to "-o filenames" and everything worked as expected. I have not experienced a problem with "cd", only with "less" etc. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769866 Title: tab completion no longer escapes filenames -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
