Tab-completion of channel names cannot be properly used with /join in irssi

[emeriste]

Binary package hint: irssi

Suppose an irssi user is in the following channels:

#ubuntu
#ubuntu-bugs
#ubuntu-devel
#ubuntu-beginners

Then an irssi user can type: /join #ubun<Tab> to have the channel name completed. Pressing Tab repeatedly cycles through the list given above. It seems that the tab-completion (probably properly) adds a space to the end of the channel name. The /join does not like this space, however, and if the user hits enter after having completed the channel name, nothing happens. (What should happen is that the window changes to the indicated channel).

So navigating to a desired channel requires typing /join #ubun<Tab> <Backspace> <Enter>

It should not be necessary to hit backspace.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 5 23:48:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: irssi 0.8.14-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: irssi
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[Paul Tagliamonte (paultag)]

I can confirm this.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugs.irssi.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=724

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for your bug report. Since this bug has been reported to the developers of the software,
I'm going to mark it as Triaged and wait for upstream to work on this. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better! Please report any other issues you may find.

[Rhonda D'Vine (rhonda)]

This bug seems to be solved, it works for me currently. In 1.0.7 that is, not exactly sure when this was addressed because the upstream bug tracker has moved in the meantime, too