[gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
Hello all. Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash insists on escaping this variable. ex: cd $TAB - cd \$ Which means I end up typing for example # cd \$DOC and this is not resolved right. If the variable path is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Jan 2009, at 13:23, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: ... Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash insists on escaping this variable. ex: cd $TAB - cd \$ Which means I end up typing for example # cd \$DOC and this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread felix
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 03:27:04PM +, Stroller wrote: On 17 Jan 2009, at 13:23, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan wrote: ... Now, I am unsure whether this is a feature, but: when I tab-complete 'cd ' followed an environment variable, bash insists on escaping this variable. ex: cd $TAB - cd \$

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/1/17 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk: I don't know much about this, but I wonder if it may be related to some of Gentoo's 3rd-party Bash-completion features? I have unmerged gentoo-bashcomp, but the problem remains. So, this would put the blame on bash-completion. I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Peter Alfredsen
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:59:38 +0100 Jean-Baptiste Mestelan meste...@gmail.com wrote: BUT (there had to be a 'but') ... gentoo-bashcomp does not play well with this latest version, meaning that after re-installing bashcomp, completion does not work after gentoo commands (emerge, ebuild ...).

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash completion annoyance: escapes directory variables.

2009-01-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Mestelan
2009/1/18 Peter Alfredsen loki_...@gentoo.org: Did you try using unstable gentoo-bashcomp too? Yes, exact same result, meaning gentoo specific completion is disabled. Does it work for you folks ?