help with bash tab completion behavior

Art Alexion art.alexion at verizon.net
Fri Jul 21 17:19:41 UTC 2006


On Friday 21 July 2006 11:51, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> 1)
> Assume a symlink to a directory named 'my_dir'.
> 'my_d<tab>' results in 'my_dir', then a second tab actually changes it
> to 'my_dir/'.  I'd like 'my_d<tab>' to directly result in 'my_dir/'.

This is a matter of choice, not a bug.  To change it, you have to 
edit /etc/bash_completion


>
> 2)
> Assume a file dir1/dir2/file1 that I want to commit in cvs.
> 'cvs commit di<tab>' results in 'cvs commit dir1 '.  Notice the trailing
> space.  That is completely useless, because now I have to backspace and
> manually type a slash to be able to continue tab completing to my target
> file.

I don't know if this is a Dapper bug or just a bad installation.  Works as 
expected for me.  
cvs commit di<tab> yields cvs commit dir1/
I am using breezy.

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