[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#272660: bash: completion of env vars broken (leading slash is added)

[David Paleino]

Hi,
after some years, someone took a look at this bug again ;)

Well, an option would really be using $dirnames (i.e. -o dirnames) instead of
$filenames. But that has drawbacks:

$ cd $H<TAB>
$HISTCMD       $HISTFILE      $HISTSIZE      $HOSTNAME      $HUSHLOGIN
$HISTCONTROL   $HISTFILESIZE  $HOME          $HOSTTYPE      
$ cd $HOM<TAB>
$ cd $HOME

$ cd /tm<TAB>
$ cd /tmp<TAB>
$ cd /tmp

..while one would expect it to be /tmp/, so that the following <TAB> would show
subdirectories... that's what -o filenames (or $filenames, in the file) does:
adding a trailing backslash.

I'm thinking to a way of adding the / to only directories, by not using
$filenames.. someone is working behind the curtains ;)

David

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