Re: bash tab variable expansion question?

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/17/11 3:07 PM, Michael Kalisz wrote:
> Hi Chet,
> 
> The shopt "direxpand" feature works as advertised (Thanks!) except that I
> noticed it seems to break the name-completion of executables which are not
> in you path.

This turns out to be a problem with `./' and `../' and every other case in
which the directory expansion hook would rewrite the directory name.  Only
the dot and dot-dot cases worked in bash-4.1, and I have a fix that
temporarily suppresses the `external' directory rewriting in that case.  I
will have to think about the right fix for the rest of the cases.

This worked in bash-4.1 only due to a bug/oversight in the directory
rewrite function logic.  It was correcting that bug that uncovered this
problem, not the other changes that went in at the same time.

Chet
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