[Bash-completion-devel] _expand, scp and quoting

[Ville Skyttä]

On Saturday 24 January 2009, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Hello,
>
> http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/bash-completion/current/revision/1170?
>
> I don't think the above change is actually wrong but it has broken at
> least "scp ~/<TAB>" completion.

I've looked into this some more.  In addition to breaking _scp, it has also 
broken _java_packages when arguments start with ~.  I thought I'd look for 
more things that might have been broken but just by looking at the two issues 
above I don't think it makes sense to spend more time in searching, it's 
quite clear that there are and/or will be more things broken in subtle, hard 
to notice ways when arguments start with ~ (when accessed in commands, bash 
quotes the tilde instead of expanding it).

I've reverted the above and added some comments to _expand, I think the slight 
(subjective) annoyance reported in Debian #489720 is a small price to pay for 
less hard to find bugs.