[Bug 177243] Re: Bash command completion puts backslash in front of beginning dollar sign

[Ken Blackburn]

Upgraded to 20.04 and this issue has appeared.  
I've used variables 
DD=/mnt/Ddisk 
since I been using Ubuntu, at least 14.04.
vi $DD/misc/filena <TAB> 
worked consistently until 20.04.1 release.
This release is the first time that this has occurred.  It seems to have been 
unfixed in this release.

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Title:
  Bash command completion puts backslash in front of beginning dollar
  sign

Status in bash-completion package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in bash-completion package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Command completion inserts a backslash in front of the beginning
  collar sign of my environment variable.  Example:

  export MYENVVARB=xxx

  cd $MYE<tab>

  results in

  cd \$MYENVVARB

  which is not only seriously inconvenient, but I've never seen any
  standard Bash configuration that does it.  I recommend it be
  configured or programmed otherwise.  Perhaps there is a special mode
  for this, but it should not be turned on in the terminal.  Those
  terminals are places where environment variables will be used a lot,
  and people will want command completion for them.  This is completely
  non-standard.  I'm seeing it in both the standard terminals, and in
  the xterms I use.

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