[gutsy] Tabcompletion makes bad assumption

[Evan Carroll]

Binary package hint: bash

Tab completion will not work on archives, when using a utility like vim even though the Ubuntu distributed copy has the zip.vim version v14 extension.

This is unfair because emacs which also has the ability isn't restricted in /etc/tab-completion. IE, vim can open compressed files, let's not impose an assumption that it can't.

I've attached a patch for fix.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

why do you remove the completion for compressed files?

[Evan Carroll (evancarroll)]

Because vim can browse compressed files... just like Emacs can. So the behavior should be consistent. Why extract an archive just to edit a copy of the file if vim can take care of it for you?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bash-completion - 20060301-3ubuntu1

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bash-completion (20060301-3ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Bug fix upload (LP: #194860)
   - Fixed completion of filenames with spaces
   - Fixed completion of hostnames with scp
   - Fixed completion of filenames with scp
   - Fixed parsing of SSH config files to parse Host and HostName lines
     correctly. Previously "HostName host" lines were parsed as two hosts:
     "Name" and "host".
  * More bugfixes:
   - Fix tar completion to handle "tar rf" the same as "tar cf" (LP: #94407)
   - Complete .m4v and .M4V for media players (LP: #115224)
   - Complete .divx and .flv for media players (LP: #127605)
   - Complete all files for "gzip ... <" (LP: #127605)
   - Allow whitespace in front of GlobalKnownHostsFile etc. (LP: #128866)
   - Complete compressed files for vim (LP: #149494)
   - Always use /etc/hosts and $HOSTFILE for host completion too (LP: #184175)
  * Modify Maintainer value to match the DebianMaintainerField
    specification.

 -- Mika Fischer <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:46:17 +0100