Re: bash 3.x path completion problems

["burning shadow" <burning dot shadow at gmail dot com>]

>   Since version 3, bash has had problems with readline causing spurious 'ghost'
> characters to echo to the screen, particularly when scrolling through the history
> buffer or using a prompt with non-printing chars in it.  It may affect completion too.

Is there any solution?

>   The real question is whether the trailing 'qq/' is actually there in the input buffer or if it's
> just an optical illusion caused by the readline bug.  What happens if you immediately
> press enter?

It's an 'illusion', but it makes it very hard to navigate thru directories.

>   BTW with all the latest updates (including cygwin dll from cvs, but that's probably not
> relevant) I can't reproduce your example:

I don't have CVS version of the DLL, but I have updated all packages
before making bug report..

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