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

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 03/19/2015 11:37 AM, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I'm overdue on pushing an updated bash-completion out...

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