[Bash-completion-devel] Bug with regex for bash-completion hosts-file

Giordon Stark kratsg at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 18:52:42 UTC 2014


Yeah, it requires me to log-in. I can't report a bug anonymously (it's not
like you have a github and I can just open up an issue, for e.g.)

Giordon


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Giordon Stark <kratsg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is also broken in 2.1 -- if you run with export POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 --
> > you will see that the regexes using the tabs don't work at all.
>
> If you consider something a bug, I suggest filing specific reports
> about your findings at
> https://alioth.debian.org/projects/bash-completion/ -- in this case
> preferably along with patches; I'm not aware of any active contributor
> using/working on a POSIX environment so without bug reports it is
> quite likely that things will fall through the cracks. On the other
> hand I'm not sure if others will consider it a bug if our stuff
> doesn't work in POSIX mode. This is bash completion after all, and I
> don't think it's unreasonable to expect bash features to be available.
>
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