Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion
Simon Law wrote:
> On 27 Dec 2001, Bill Gribble wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 10:54, Simon Law wrote:
> > > Hrm... Could you list the output of `complete` and `set -o` for
> > > me? I have the same inputrc, and am unable to reproduce the problem.
> > > I am running libreadline4 4.2a-3 and bash 2.05a-3.
> >
> > ok. Please let me know if there's any other diagnostic info I can send.
> >
> > b.g.
>
> I've duplicated your inputrc, your complete, and your options.
> Nothing...
>
> However, I just saw this appear on debian-devel:
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> This leads me to suspect that you might have the same problem.
> Can you test to see if it works in the console or not? As well, can you
> test to see if you've been getting double tabs in your terminal? (Which
> terminal are you using? xterm?) If you just type <TAB> at an empty
> prompt, and you get "Display all 10000 possibilities? (y or n)" then
> your terminal is passing tabs twice.
On further analysis, I find that this only happens in gnome-terminal,
not in xterm. That may help to narrow down the problem, and it does
seem to exonerate libreadline4, does it not?
Bill, does this fit what you're seeing? If you're a gnome-terminal user,
can you try it in xterm to verify that the problem is unique to
gnome-terminal?
Craig
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