On 4/27/12 10:24 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> I thought this was fixed in 4.2, yet I'm still seeing it...
>
> when's this going to be fixed?
There are a couple of things wrong with your question. First, the name of
the shopt option is no_empty_cmd_completion. Second, you haven't
demonstrated a failure mode. When I enable that option and hit TAB at an
empty PS1 prompt I don't get command completion; it just beeps.
> It's driving me crazy, as bash drops input because it asks questions about
> displaying 1000's of completions...).
>
>
>
> when I paste a few lines of source in at the shell -- doesn't
> matter if it is bash script or perl or written text...
>
> I can't rely on bash not corrupting the text.
>
> Even between single quotes:
>
> a='
> <tab>blah
> '
> will generate autocomplete.
Of course. It performs filename completion. That's not a position where
bash is ready to read a command, so the option setting is not relevant.
> So why isn't this fixed?
You haven't actually described a reproducible problem. Maybe you should
turn off line editing before pasting input. Clearly you don't need editing
in that case, and bash/readline can't tell the difference between pasted
and keyboard input.
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