Chet, thank you very much for the patch to bashline.c!
I want make aware my particular use-case. I use ENV variables to alias
different project directories:
export vh="/var/www/vhosts"
export lslib="/code/src/lib/perl"
export lsjs="/code/src/lib/ecma"
export lsres="/code/src/share/web/res"
export lsext="/code/src/share/web/ext"
export lstest="/code/src/test/perl"
export lsconf="/code/src/share/server"
export olde="/code/src/share/web/desktop/ext"
Before this fix was introduced I was able to[1]:
$ cd $vh/ex<TAB><ENTER>
Which would nice place me in my /var/www/vhosts/example.com directory.
However
since this feature[2] the same sequence produces:
$ cd \$vh/example.com
bash: cd: $vh/example.com: No such file or directory
Beyond changing directories these aliases aid copying and moving files:
$ cp $vh/ex<TAB>/ht<TAB>/i<TAB> $vh/loc<TAB>/ht<TAB><ENTER>
Would copy:
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/htdocs/index.html (to)
/var/www/vhosts/localhost/htdocs/index.html
--
[1] Given the directory structure:
/var/www/vhosts/
|-- example.com
| `-- htdocs
| `-- index.html
`-- localhost
`-- htdocs
[2] Referenced in this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-02/msg00274.html
