Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

Bebo · 2006-11-29 11:57:54

Hello,

Some days ago I noticed that tab-completion doesn't work any more on files and directories that contain spaces. I'm pretty sure that it has. I'm using bash (3.1.17-1). I don't know when this happened, but my suspicion is that it is related to the upgrade to readline 5.2. Has anyone else experienced this? (Maybe someone can be a bit more specific than I )

Hm, here are some other perhaps interesting settings on my system:

LOCALE="en_US.ISO-8859-1"
KEYMAP="sv-latin1.map.gz"
CONSOLEFONT="lat1-16.psfu.gz"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-1"

Regards

chrismortimore · 2006-11-29 12:03:12

Works fine for me.

[chris@marbles documents]$ pacman -Q | sed -ne '/bash/p;/readline/p'
bash 3.1.17-1
readline 5.2-1

Bebo · 2006-11-29 12:35:29

I'm sorry, just as I saw your answer I was about to give some further info.

To be more exact my problem is that when I've tab-competed a directory containing a space, I can't hit tab again to complete file or directory names further down in the hiararchy - nothing happens.

chrismortimore · 2006-11-29 12:53:44

Ahhh, that I agree with.

Bebo · 2006-11-29 13:02:09

OK, good, now I don't feel so lonely any more It _has_ worked before, right?

A simple test:

$ mkdir "with space"
$ mkdir nospace
$ touch with space/hello
$ touch nospace/hi
$ ls nospace/hi            <------- Here, "hi" was written just by tabbing
$ ls with space/          <------- Here tab doesn't give any result

Same thing with brackets:

$ mkdir "[brackets]"
$ touch [brackets]/hmm  
$ ls [brackets]/         <------- Lots of tabbing here, no result

Also other (more or less "special") characters give this behaviour.

chrismortimore · 2006-11-29 13:26:22

To be honest, I can't remember.

Just tried it on my Debian system (running Sarge), and it works fine.

augustob · 2006-11-29 15:21:44

It has, and it did break. No clues as to why, though. Pacman says bash build date is April 29, so that isn't it..

Bebo · 2006-11-29 16:17:22

OK, I reverted to readline 5.1.4 and that works. I guess it's time for a bug report.

Bebo · 2006-11-29 17:33:44

Bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5915

[vEX] · 2006-11-29 17:46:56

So that's why it stopped working, I started noticing it yesterday.

Romashka · 2006-11-29 22:47:39

Bebo wrote:

Bug report: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5915

Duplicate of bug #5912.

Bebo · 2006-11-29 23:03:05

Yes, sorry. Apparently I did a lousy search

Romashka · 2006-11-29 23:06:12

Bebo wrote:

Yes, sorry. Apparently I did a lousy search

Search is not always working good. But I suggest sort bugs by date first (they are sorted by severity by default).

stonecrest · 2006-11-30 04:21:08

Ahh, this was driving me insane, I wish I had seen this topic earlier. I hope this gets fixed soon, it's damn annoying.

TheBodziO · 2006-11-30 08:20:25

I'm struggling with the same problem for a couple of days. Once putting directory with spaces into typed path there's no more possible to complete further dirs and files in tree.

I thought that it was a kind of local configuration problem but I couldn't find any clue how to solve this situation neither in lib documentation nor on the web. Nice to know that my suspicion that there's a bug in readline is confirmed.

I'm waiting for solution (this is most annoying for me since I've got my music categorized in directories with spaces)!

Romashka · 2006-11-30 10:55:30

This issue is fixed in bash-3.2-1 from Testing.

TheBodziO · 2006-11-30 11:02:49

Sure I'll upgrade. Thx for info!

Still I'm also interested in "why"?

Romashka · 2006-11-30 11:06:34

TheBodziO wrote:

Still I'm also interested in "why"?

Probably due to upgrade of readline while bash was not recompiled.

slubman · 2006-11-30 11:13:11

I've recompiled bash 3.1 with the new readline, and it doesn't solve the problem.

TheBodziO · 2006-11-30 11:24:35

Romashka wrote:

Probably due to upgrade of readline while bash was not recompiled.

In bug report somebody mentioned that he recompiled bash against current readline without success in resolving the issue (so did slubman a moment ago). I think that's rather bash itself or bash/readline (not likely since new bash works properly) problem.

Anyway I'm stopping before I'll turn this thread into bug system I'm going to watch bug reports since now without "bugging" you (a insectorium in one phrase )

Thanks a lot for your replies and interest!

augustob · 2006-12-01 15:02:21

Got bash from testing and pacman -U'd it manually. Works wonders and my keyboard thanks you; now he doesn't get violently blamed for lack of autocompletion.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-11-29 11:57:54

Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#2 2006-11-29 12:03:12

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#3 2006-11-29 12:35:29

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#4 2006-11-29 12:53:44

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#5 2006-11-29 13:02:09

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#6 2006-11-29 13:26:22

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#7 2006-11-29 15:21:44

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#8 2006-11-29 16:17:22

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#9 2006-11-29 17:33:44

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#10 2006-11-29 17:46:56

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#11 2006-11-29 22:47:39

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#12 2006-11-29 23:03:05

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#13 2006-11-29 23:06:12

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#14 2006-11-30 04:21:08

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#15 2006-11-30 08:20:25

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#16 2006-11-30 10:55:30

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#17 2006-11-30 11:02:49

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#18 2006-11-30 11:06:34

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#19 2006-11-30 11:13:11

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#20 2006-11-30 11:24:35

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

#21 2006-12-01 15:02:21

Re: Tab-completion after directories containing spaces broken

Board footer