Re: completion regression?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:41:55AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> 
> Completion doesn't seem to work as well as it used to, e.g in version 5.2.  The
> manual doesn't differentiate but AFAICS there are three types: command,
> filename and location.  Successful completion now always leaves a trailing
> space but its only really needed for commands (so following words can then be
> typed).  It's not needed for locations and is a nuisance for filenames because
> using it on a filename requires the space to be deleted after successfully
> completing on each component/directory.  It used to add a slash instead, which
> is much more useful.

Are you sure this isn't just happening for the very first time you do
it?  This is a known bug, and I got a new hook added to readline5 that
would let us fix it, but never had time to get back to it.  If it
worked before, I don't remember what changed that required the new
hook.

And obviously I've forgotten the details, since I just pulled up gdb
and typed "file /bin<tab>" and got a slash.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery