I always scroll pages of completion results with space, not enter. I
didn't know enter was an option there. I just tried it, looks like
enter goes by lines, instead of pages? No wonder you were holding it
down. So... don't do that. esp. not on sudo.
To easily get a big list that you need to page, do
d[TAB]
There are a lot of commands that start with d, so you will get a nice big list.
Or for an even bigger list:
nice [TAB] => all the commands
(the bash option to not tab-complete all the commands on an empty line
defaults to on, in Trusty at least, so that's why you need nice or sudo
or some other meta-command to trigger it.)
I don't think there's any point leaving the bug report open, so marking
it invalid.
I hope you were able to ^c your apt-get before much harm was done.
There should be logs somewhere in /var/log/apt/history of what got un-
installed. In case it's still relevant 2 years on...
** Changed in: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => Invalid
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