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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: bash: tab completion failure from (but not at) /
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:01:03 +0200
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* <fergus AT bonhard DOT uklinux DOT net> (2004-05-11 08:25 +0100)
> Just lately (all recent snapshots including 20040510) I'm noticing a failure
> with tab completion for pathnames beginning /. Thus, I would expect, and in
> the past have achieved
> 
> 	ls /ho<TAB> 
> 	ls /home/
> or
> 	md5sum /us<TAB>loc<TAB>
> 	md5sum /usr/local/
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Now, all I am getting from ls /ho<TAB> or md5sum /us<TAB> is a system beep
> (i.e. "error!" or some kind of uncertainty or ambiguity affecting bash's
> interpretation).
> 
> For pathnames starting elsewhere, there's not a problem. E.g. from HOME I
> can press
> 
> 	cd st<TAB>
> 	cd stash
> 
> or (cf. problem described above) if I actually *move* to / I can press
> 
> 	ls ho<TAB>
> 	ls home/
> or
> 	md5sum us<TAB>loc<TAB>
> 	md5sum usr/local/
> 
> I attach the output from cygcheck -srv. My ~/.inputrc has not altered for
> many months and includes the two lines
> 
> 	set completion-ignore-case On
> 	set show-all-if-ambiguous  On

I can confirm that almost identically (although I very rarely use
bash): under rxvt the cursor "jumps" in the next row and hangs there
for about a minute  or more until the results are shown. The next
<TAB> then shows output immediately (as it should be).

The wrong behaviour doesn't show if i want to complete paths or files
not starting with "/" or if I am already in "/".

Thorsten,
using the latest bash and the latest Cygwin snapshot


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