disable autocomplete of the home path

[Derek Broughton]

Carsten Aulbert wrote:

> Rares Vernica wrote:
>> In Bash, when I type something like "~/" and I press TAB, the "~" is
>> replaced with the path to my home (e.g. "/home/username"). I would like
>> to turn this feature off. Is it possible?
> 
> That is a yes
> 
>> I don't want to turn off the other auto-completion features, like
>> directory and file names auto-completion, just the "~" replacement.
> 
> That's the harder part. My guess is, it belongs to the readline interface
> Thus putting 'set tilde-expand Off' in ~/.incputrc *should* alter that,
> according to 'man bash' or 'man readline', however, I didn't succeed.
> 
> Maybe you should search in that direction.
> 
It should be ~/.inputrc, and the command should be:

set expand-tilde off

unfortunately, that didn't work either :-)
-- 
derek