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acroread package

  1. Bug #769866
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 769866

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Jörn Reder (joern-reder) wrote : Re: tab completion no longer escapes filenames

I am encountering still the same problems. Just updated to 11.04 today. Versions of bash-completion are the same as mentioned above.

But I can add a few comments: for root everything seem to work fine, e.g.

  less /var <TAB> log <TAB> mess<TAB>

works as expected. But as a normal user I get a space after the directory instead.

Interestingly just for known commands like "less" or "ls".

The following works as expected, even as a normal user:

  foobar /var <TAB> log <TAB> mess<TAB>

11.04 ships /etc/bash_completion version 1.3, 10.10 had version 1.1. I diff'd the files, and I think there are some parts which could be responsible for this (probably when handling different bash versions) but I don't know anything about the bash completation internals, so I can't add more senseful comments to that issue ;)

Hopefully this helps nevertheless thow...