F12: bash-completion issues?

[Daniel B. Thurman]

On 08/12/2010 04:55 PM, JD wrote:
>   On 08/12/2010 03:26 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)
>>
>>
>>     
> Do you have anything named List...whatever   in the working directory 
> you were in?
> If not, it will beep and show you nothing.
>   
Yes, there is a non-executable file called ListAvailable there.