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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 12:25:07 -0700
From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: pasting several lines into the shell -- change from bash3->bash4
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 
> I can reproduce the effect, and it looks like this is the result of
> an accidental checkin.  Thanks for the hint.
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???
Is it?

AFAIK, you can no longer safely paste code into the bash command line
because the TAB char is the default completion character.


If your code is indented w/tabs (concept?!), bash tries to perform
auto-completion where it then rewaits for input depending on your
completion settings.

If you have more than a screen's worth of completions, you can
get a question:
  ls
Display all 660 possibilities? (y or n)
--
At that point all tabs are swallowed, and the first
character of your then clause gets swallowed.

This changed from bash3 where
"no_empty_cmd_completion" used to effectively be
"no_empty_line_completion".

So if you had that set, tabs on an empty line weren't taken
as completion chars, but expanded as tabs.

----
I complained about the feature loss but most bash users
don't paste code into their shells.  If you are shell
user, you aren't expected to use a GUI editor like gvim.


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