[Reportbug-maint] Bug#376810: could provide support for tab-completion of ~ and $VARIABLE

[Carl Chenet]

Package: reportbug
Version: 4.5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

Here is a patch to expand visually ~ and variables in attach file dialog.

Bye,
Carl Chenet


-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
DEBEMAIL="chaica at ohmytux.com"
DEBFULLNAME="Carl Chenet"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/chaica/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "4.5"
mode novice
ui text
smtphost "smtp.free.fr"

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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>From 0bcbf000e38d0942f42639901430c13d2d7bd6a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chaica <chaica at ohmytux.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:36:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow the use of tilde and variables in attach file dialog

---
 reportbug/ui/text_ui.py |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/reportbug/ui/text_ui.py b/reportbug/ui/text_ui.py
index 450d7c3..cb9a4e6 100644
--- a/reportbug/ui/text_ui.py
+++ b/reportbug/ui/text_ui.py
@@ -262,6 +262,8 @@ def get_password(prompt=None):
     return getpass.getpass(prompt)
 
 def FilenameCompleter(text, i):
+    text = os.path.expanduser(text)
+    text = os.path.expandvars(text)
     paths = glob.glob(text+'*')
     if not paths: return None
 
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