Debian Bug report logs - #538013
bash: menu-complete command fails to complete file names

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

From: Jerome Reybert <jreybert@gmail.com>

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

Subject: bash: menu-complete command fails to complete file names

Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:59:37 +0200

Package: bash
Version: 4.0-3
Severity: normal

I bind the "menu-complete" command to <TAB> key with the following line
in my .bashrc:
bind '"\t"':menu-complete

menu-complete is a bash command. It allows to bash to display in a 
different way completions. Instead of display a list of completion, 
possible completions rolls on your current line. I am pretty sure that 
the problem comes from bash, not bash-completion. Setting bash to 
verbose, auto_completion commands seem the same with "complete" 
(standard completion) and "menu-complete".

menu-complete is not able to complete file names. However, it can
complete directories names. Here to reproduce:
$ mkdir bar1 bar2
$ touch foo1 foo2
$ ls ba<TAB>
$ ls bar1/      # OK
$ ls fo<TAB>    # nothing append


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                5.0.0          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils               3.2            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.9-12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii  bash-completion               1:1.0-3    programmable completion for the ba

Versions of packages bash suggests:
ii  bash-doc                      4.0-3      Documentation and examples for the

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 538013@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 538013@bugs.debian.org

Subject: reassign 538013 to bash-completion

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:37:14 +0200

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.25~bpo40+1
# seems like a completion bug to me
reassign 538013 bash-completion 

Message #19 received at 538013@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérôme REYBERT <jreybert@gmail.com>

To: 538013@bugs.debian.org

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:57:19 +0200

This bug is enterly related to bash, not bash-completion, since
"menu-complete" is a native bash command.

I am pretty sure that reassign this bug to bash-completion package is an error.

Message #24 received at 538013-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jérôme REYBERT <jreybert@gmail.com>

To: 538013-done@bugs.debian.org

Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:07:52 +0200

According to Chet Ramey, current maintainer of bash project:

> This has already been fixed for bash-4.1.

So I think this bug should be automatically corrected with the next
upgrade of bash package.

Jérôme

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