F12: bash-completion issues?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 08/12/2010 03:32 PM, Mikkel wrote:
> On 08/12/2010 05:26 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>   
>> On 08/12/2010 03:09 PM, JD wrote:
>>     
>>>   On 08/12/2010 02:10 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Perhaps I am assuming wrong, but it appears that bash-completion
>>>> is not working for local files in the gnome-terminal?
>>>>
>>>> For example, I know there is a file in my desktop called "ListAvailable"
>>>> so I tried this:
>>>>
>>>> # yum list available>  List<tab>
>>>>
>>>> and bash completion refuses to locate the local file and to expand it.
>>>>
>>>> Is this expected?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> In your .bashrc
>>>
>>> set complete-file ^I^I
>>> (that's Control-I twice)
>>>   
>>>       
>> I tried it (logged out and back in) and it does not
>> change anything.  Same behaviour.
>>
>> It is interesting there are different behaviours:
>>
>> # L<Tab>
>> LabPlot       LibraryLocal
>> # cd Desk<Tab>  (expanded to Desktop, so it worked)
>> # L<Tab>
>> LabPlot       LibraryLocal
>> # List<Tab> (Beeps everytime a Tab is hit, but no list is given)
>>
>>
>>     
> Dumb question - is there a file List or List<something> in the
> current directory? From what you describe, it does not sound like
> there is...
>
> As for running "List<Tab>", do you have a command List or
> List<something> in your path?
>
> Mikkel
>   
Yes, in the original post, I said that there is a ListAvailable file in
the Desktop
directory, so bash-completion does not find any matching file there.  It
seems
that bash-completion does not work on local files that are known to be
there,
and I tried it on links, and directories (except for "Desktop" which it
did expand)
UNLESS it is prefixed with certain commands in front of it, such as:

# cd ~/Desktop
# ls List<Tab>
ListAvailable

So it worked.

But these fails:
# List<Tab>
# ./List<Tab>
# yum list available > List<Tab>