Debian Bug report logs - #257317
bash_completion: completing perl module names is buggy

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: bash_completion: completing perl module names is buggy

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:28:41 +0200

Package: bash
Version: 2.05b-15
Severity: normal

Try to complete a perl module name

$ . /etc/bash_completion
$ man Mail::

Now I press <tab>

$ man Mail::Mail\:\:

There is something wrong with it I think.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux nikratio 2.6.7 #1 Fri Jun 18 15:37:08 CEST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                  3.0.8        Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information



bye
Nikolaus

Message #14 received at 257317@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>

To: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>, 257317@bugs.debian.org

Cc: ian@caliban.org

Subject: Re: Bug#257317: bash_completion: completing perl module names is buggy (forwarded from Nikolaus Rath)

Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 17:15:44 -0700

On Fri 02 Jul 2004 at 22:19:39 +0200, you wrote:

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> Subject: Bug#257317: bash_completion: completing perl module names is buggy
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 19:28:41 +0200
> 
> Package: bash
> Version: 2.05b-15
> Severity: normal
> 
> Try to complete a perl module name
> 
> $ . /etc/bash_completion
> $ man Mail::
> 
> Now I press <tab>
> 
> $ man Mail::Mail\:\:
> 
> There is something wrong with it I think.

This is an artifact of how bash's internal completion code works. The
only workaround at present is to escape the colons with a backslash.

Ian
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Message #27 received at 257317-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>

To: 257317-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 257317-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Seems fixed...

Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 18:05:42 +0200

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fixed 257317 20080705
thanks

Hi,
it seems it has been fixed sometime during these years:

$ man Mail<TAB>
$ man Mail\:\:<TAB>
Mail::Address          Mail::Field::Date      Mail::Internet
Mail::Cap              Mail::Field::Generic   Mail::Mailer
Mail::Field            Mail::Filter           Mail::Send
Mail::Field::AddrList  Mail::Header           Mail::Util
$ man Mail\:\:A<TAB>
$ man Mail\:\:Address


David

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