[Bug 1290572] Re: tab completion skips files when path begins with ~

[JuanJo Ciarlante]

This MP[1] seems to fix it for me - at least for:
1) completion when 1st char is '~'
2) fixing potential double escaping when the argument is already escaped, eg: cat /tmp/file\ with\ spac<TAB>

[1] https://code.launchpad.net/~jjo/bash-completion/fix-bash43
-quote_readline_by_ref-tilde-and-double_escaping/+merge/210421

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Title:
  tab completion skips files when path begins with ~

Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Tab completion does not list files when the path begins with ~, like
  so:

    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ cd ~ && ls -l testdir
    total 8
    drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 10 13:15 dir1
    drwxrwxr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Mar 10 13:15 Dir2
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu    0 Mar 10 13:15 file
    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ ls -l testdir/<tab><tab>
    dir1/ Dir2/ file
    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ ls -l ~/testdir/<tab><tab>
    dir1/ Dir2/

  For the record:

    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ compopt ls
    compopt +o bashdefault +o default +o dirnames +o filenames +o nospace +o plusdirs ls
    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ complete -p ls
    complete -F _longopt ls
    ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ alias ls
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'

  I can't tell if this is the same bug as bug 1288031, as I'm only
  seeing the auto-completion of only directory names when paths begin
  with ~, not for all paths.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: bash-completion 1:2.1-2ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-16.36-generic 3.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-16-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Mar 10 14:33:50 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-27 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha i386 (20140224)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: bash-completion
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

  ubuntu at trusty-i386:~$ apt-cache policy bash
  bash:
    Installed: 4.3-2ubuntu1
    Candidate: 4.3-2ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 4.3-2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://ubuntu-mirror/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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