Autocomplete doesn't work as expected in Konsole

[AlbertH]

Kubuntu Jaunty Alpha

Autocomplete, in konsole, doesn't work as it did in previous versions.
If I press TAB after the insertion of few characters of the second "word" of the line, I obtain no suggestion.
For example if I write:
    apt-get ins
and then press TAB, nothing happens. In previous version I would have obtain:
    apt-get install

Thanks for your great work...

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

Hi, thanks for submitting a bug report.

Tab completion is actually handled by bash-completion - I'm refiling your bug against that.

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

Hello Charles,
you shouldn't have filed this against *upstream* bash-completion. And we're not (yet) using Launchpad as upstream bugtracker either ;)

Albert, could you please report:

  $ echo $BASH_COMPLETION_DIR $BASH_COMPLETION

Ciao,
David

[C. Cooke (ccooke)]

Ah ha. Sorry about that!

For future reference... what bash-completion *should* I have filed against?

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:38:56 -0000, C. Cooke wrote:

> Ah ha. Sorry about that!
>
> For future reference... what bash-completion *should* I have filed
> against?

Maybe the package? ;)

This is a user-problem, not code-related. He probably didn't
source /etc/bash_completion -- that's why I asked to write the value of those
two environment variables ;)

But, well, don't worry :) -- users come first.

Ciao,
David

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[AlbertH (alberthilbert)]

> Albert, could you please report:
>
> $ echo $BASH_COMPLETION_DIR $BASH_COMPLETION

I get no result.

Ciao,
Albert

[David Paleino (dpaleino)]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:29:45 -0000, Albert wrote:

> > Albert, could you please report:
> >
> > $ echo $BASH_COMPLETION_DIR $BASH_COMPLETION
>
> I get no result.

Then you're clearly not sourcing bash completion.

Please add the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

[ -r /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion

Then re-login.

Ciao,
David

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[AlbertH (alberthilbert)]

Now, it works...
The problem was: no bash.rc at all.

Thank you...

Albert

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

I'm closing the bug as it wasn't a problem in the package.

Thanks,

James

[Pelládi Gábor (pelladigabor)]

I did a fresh install of Kubuntu Jaunty. After the install, I had no bash.rc at all. I don't know, what package is responsible for creating one, but it is definitely a bug.