Re: bash / readline problem with cd, directories with spaces, nospace

[ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)]

George Prekas writes:

> On 23/02/2015 17:14, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>> I _think_ this is a regression, but my memory for this sort of thing
>> is terrible.
>> ...

> I had the same trouble as you describe and I was using your
> workaround, but then I realized that find is broken in the same way.
> So, I did some research and found out that Debian and Ubuntu have
> solved this problem by patching /etc/bash_completion as described in
> the following URLs:
>
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739835>
>
> <https://code.launchpad.net/~jjo/bash-completion/quote_readline_by_ref_fixes/+merge/210930>
>
> I think Cygwin should incorporate the specified patch file in its
> bash-completion package.

Great sleuthing, thank you very much.  Over to the bash maintainer,
please.

ht
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