Comment 16 for bug 778627

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Carter Sanders (gamma3) wrote : Re: In natty, bash completion now quotes shell variable references rather than expanding them

I upgraded to bash 4.2.36(1), and the problem is only half fixed. On older versions of bash (certainly in the bash2 vintage), cd $VARIABLE/<tab> offered completions. At lest in the newer version it doesn't escape the dollar sign anymore, but this is still a removed, highly used feature.