What up with this weird tab completion in Ubuntu??

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Sep 12 14:00:09 UTC 2011


On 09/12/2011 05:07 AM, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am on Ubuntu 11.04. I have noticed this weird tab completion
> behavior at the terminals.
> For example:
>
> Previously:
> ========
> '$ ls ~/Docum<TAB>'
>
> would give:
> ========
> '$ ls ~/Documents/'
>
> which would allow me to type a few more characters and press TAB again
> for further completion.
>
> NOW:
> =====
> '$ ls ~/Docum<TAB>'
>
> gives:
> ====
> '$ ls ~/Documents'
>
> Note the irritating space after the directory name completion above.
>
> How do I get back the previous behavior?
>
> Thanks in advance.


Unfortunately, I was unable to find the reference so far, but this issue 
was brought up before, and there is a bugzilla entry with a solution 
available.






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