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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:36:44 +0100
From:      Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@free.fr>
To:        Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tab completion working partially
Message-ID:  <20070205193644.pkbqd6ebmsgkco0w@imp.enib.fr>
In-Reply-To: <6eb82e0702051015j1c8b52fet7e454a65b0d38c94@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20070205180416.8i4ydi4jknxcggsk@imp.enib.fr> <6eb82e0702051015j1c8b52fet7e454a65b0d38c94@mail.gmail.com>

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Quoting Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com>:

> On 2/6/07, Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@enib.fr> wrote:
>> (Sorry for the double-posting, the last message wasn't sent properly)
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have problems with the tab-completion in my shell (bash). When there
>> is only one choice possible, it works fine (e.g. cd /usr/por<tab> <il
>> complete correctly to /usr/ports). However, when there is multiple
>> choices (e.g. cd /usr/l<tab>) and bash usually shows a list of all
>> possible options, it just exits the shell (Konsole or xterm windo is
>> closed and I get thrown back to a login prompt when using a tty). In
>> sh or csh, it's even worse : completion doesn't work at all. I'm
>> running 6.2-STABLE, any ideas about this ?
>
> Are you using bash-completion ?

Yeah, actually it was working before but all of a sudden it started =20
behaving like this. Problem solved by reinstalling bash with =20
portupgrade -f bash.

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