Re: Directory completion problems

[Artur Rataj]

I want the logical view, and I think there is one by now. But there is a
file missing in the logical directory, when cd ../ is completed from a
symlink.

~/projects/art/dev$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x  6 art art 4096 2012-02-24 16:21 .bzr
lrwxrwxrwx  1 art art   18 2012-04-16 14:48 lib -> ../../hth/dev/lib/
drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-02-24 16:21 src
~/projects/art/dev$ cd lib/../
.bzr/ lib/

I have made a test directory, to analyse the problem:

~/a$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x  5 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:50 .
drwxr-xr-x 80 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:48 .hidden
drwxr-xr-x  2 art art 4096 2012-04-19 14:50 .java
lrwxrwxrwx  1 art art    7 2012-04-19 14:48 symlink -> ../test
~/a$ cd symlink/../

hitting Tab gives:

~/a$ cd symlink/../.java/

It seems that .hidden and .java are treated differently, just because .java
indeed exists in ../test/.., i.e. .., as opposed to .hidden.
If *either* a/.java or ../.java were removed, the completion would not
work. So, it looks as if the completion was allowed only to a logical AND
between files in the physical and in the logical directory.

I use the version 4.2.8(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).