[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42291] tab completion gives incorrect filenames

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42291>

                 Summary: tab completion gives incorrect filenames
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sun 04 May 2014 11:40:54 PM UTC
                Category: Interpreter
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Result
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Frederick Robinson
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 3.8.1
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I'm in the following directory:

> ls -la
total 1116
drwxr-xr-x  7 frederick frederick   4096 May  4 16:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 frederick frederick   4096 Apr 29 00:15 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 frederick frederick 514132 Nov  7 14:43 ex1.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 frederick frederick 256432 Nov  7 14:48 ex2.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 frederick frederick 330389 Nov 11 09:39 ex3.pdf
drwxr-xr-x  8 frederick frederick   4096 May  4 15:15 .git
-rw-r--r--  1 frederick frederick     13 May  4 15:13 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x  2 frederick frederick   4096 Apr 14 11:36 mlclass-ex1
drwxr-xr-x  2 frederick frederick   4096 May  4 15:06 mlclass-ex2
drwxr-xr-x  2 frederick frederick   4096 Feb 18 12:49 mlclass-ex3
drwxr-xr-x  2 frederick frederick   4096 May  4 15:09 zips

Typing 
>cd ml<tab>
gets me 
>cd mlclass-ex
(all good so far), but then I continue
>cd mlclass-ex1<tab>
which results in
>cd mlclass-ex1.pdf 
(not so good)

of course I can avoid this by not hitting this second tab, but I think this is
still probably not desired behaviour.




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