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Re: show-all-if-ambiguous inserts spurious backslashes
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: show-all-if-ambiguous inserts spurious backslashes |
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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 22:52:31 -0400 |
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On 3/10/13 5:26 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote:
> If you have "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" in your .inputrc, typing
> this sequence in bash (in a directory containing some non-hidden files):
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> echo *<tab>
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> Results in the list of possible matches being displayed (as expected),
> but the command line is then edited to:
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> echo \*
>
> Which is probably not what the user wanted.
Thanks for the report. The bash default completion code needs to treat
TAB with show-all-if-ambigous on the same as straight TAB. This will be
fixed in the next release.
Chet
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