[arch-general] tab completion is mucking up prompt spacing - started a week or so ago - any ideas?

Martti Kühne mysatyre at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 07:38:32 EST 2012


On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:09:24PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>   Lately on some tab completions using ~/, I've noticed that the tab-completion
> automatically fills in /home/david for ~/ and on other operations it does not.
> It seems in some cases that tab completion tries to automatically account for
> the extra spacing needed by inserting /$HOME in place of ~/ but it doesn't do it
> correctly resulting in my cursor being moved a line ABOVE the current line?
> 
>   What package is most likely responsible for this? bash-completion? Also, is
> anyone else seeing this?
> 

Hi

After I last saw things like that I pacman -R bash-completion. haven't had any
trouble since. Try getting rid of it, too, simple file names will still be tab-
completed.

cheers!
mar77i


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