[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#521406: Bug#521406: bash-completion: leading tilde always expanded

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Fri Mar 27 17:46:04 UTC 2009


On Friday 27 March 2009, debian at ginguppin.de wrote:
> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705
> Severity: normal
>
> completing pathes like ~/foo to /home/username/foo is usually unwanted --
> and there seems to be non configuration to disable it gracefully.

We had the expansion disabled for a while and it resulted in things breaking, 
so the expansion is back and I don't personally think it's going away any time 
soon.  See for example http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/bash-
completion-devel/2009-February/000973.html







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