Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion
[CC to debian-devel, asking if report #126567 is reproduceable]
Bill Gribble writes:
> > I simply cannot reproduce the behaviour you describe.
>
> Well, why don't you describe for me what you have tried to do. "Simply
> cannot reproduce" could mean just about anything, including that you
> haven't tried. How about this:
>
> $ mkdir foo
> $ touch foo/bar
> $ cd fo<TAB>
>
> On my machine, 'fo' is replaced with 'foo/bar'. That is incorrect.
>
> It doesn't seem to me that you are interested in locating this problem.
> I'm taking my time to file a bug report in an effort to help the Debian
> project. In your role as maintainer, please do me the courtesy of at
> least pretending to be interested.
calm down and don't flame around. the initial report did have an
example which I tested on more than one machine. Then I tagged the
report as unreproduceable to mark the current state. If I were not
interested I would have closed the report without notifying you.
> b.g.
>
> # /etc/inputrc - global inputrc for libreadline
> # See readline(3readline) and `info rluserman' for more information.
>
> # Be 8 bit clean.
> set input-meta on
> set output-meta on
>
> # To allow the use of 8bit-characters like the german umlauts, comment out
> # the line below. However this makes the meta key not work as a meta key,
> # which is annoying to those which don't need to type in 8-bit characters.
>
> # set convert-meta off
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