Re: [gentoo-user] bash completion for paths not working

[Holly Bostick]

Mark Knecht schreef:
> Hi, On one machine of mine, and only one machine, bash completion is
> not working for my user account when I try to complete a path. I hit
> tab and nothing happens. Bash completion is working for files though.
> I can do bash completion in my home directory and get a list of
> files, but if I try to complete /usr/sr  but hitting a tab it just
> sits and does nothing.
>
> It works fine for root.
>
> What turns this feature on for a user? I copied a good .bashrc file
> from a working machine over and logged back into the bad machine but
> that didn't fix it.
>
> man bash makes it look like it should be on by default.
>
> Thanks for the unix lesson.
>
> Cheers, Mark

Yes, I have a similar problem, but bash-completion doesn't work
correctly for anybody (user or su root).

I uncommented the bash completion command in both ~/.bashrcs long ago,
and at first the problem was only for root (which was weird enough); now
(what constitutes 'now' as opposed to 'previously' I don't know) if I
hit tab when filling in a path or a filename, as you said, nothing
happens; if I fill in the rest of the path manually, the file is not
found-- because my use of the TAB key has invisibly taken me up one
directory (where the file does not exist). When I hit enter, I find that
if I had started in /usr/local/src, I am now in /usr/local, for example.

This occurs under various terminals (aterm, gnome-terminal,
multi-gnome-terminal, xterm), although bash-completion fails differently
under each of them (which is also weird). I know something has changed,
but not what.

Although.... now that I'm looking into this (which I had not really
taken time to do, so I wasn't really 'worrying' about it as I had put
this annoyance on my secondary 'to-do/fix' list, despite the fact that
it's a major annoyance) I notice that I have both bash-completion and
bash-completion-config installed-- and the man
page for bash-completion-config says that the config files are in
/etc/bashcomp-configrc, if it exists, or $HOME/.bashcomp-configrc, if it
exists.

So at least I probably need to check there first to see if
bash-completion has in fact been set, since there is no mention of
~/.bashrc and perhaps those settings are now invalid, or in conflict.

Something for you to check as well, Mark?

Holly
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