Re: Bash completion sometimes meshes up my terminal

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/22/16 9:43 AM, Jaro Punta wrote:
> I am not sure this is a bug but I cannot find an explanation why this
> happens. Sometimes when I execute certain commands, and I press the
> Tab key while I am typing the command, then after the commands
> finishes, the terminal is left in a abnormal state (e.g. terminal echo
> is off). This seems to happen when the program in the command has an
> associated completion function that performs certain actions, such as
> calling grep. 

Thanks for the report.  This happens when a programmable completion
function calls an external command during the execution of a completion
function.  Bash saves the tty state after every successful job completes,
so it can restore it if a job is killed by a signal and leaves the
terminal in an undesired state.  In this case, we need to suppress that
if the job that completes is run during programmable completion, since the
terminal settings at that time are as readline sets them for line editing.
This fix will be in the release version of bash-4.4.

Chet

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