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nsw42

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Registered: 2010-01-12

Posts: 36

Prevent "escaping" when pressing tab in terminal emulator

Hello there,

I prefer working on command line, and with gnome/kde terminals, xterm, ...
it is no problem to type something like
> mousepad $HOME/folder/w <TAB> ...
and then w will be expanded to whatever is there basically. Hit enter, done.

With the xfce terminal, something unexpected happens:
$HOME is "auto-escaped" to \$HOME ... this is completely not
what I want or would expect.

I couldnt find a "preferences" switch to disable that ... any idea?
Bug? Feature?

stqn

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Registered: 2010-10-11

Posts: 174

Re: Prevent "escaping" when pressing tab in terminal emulator

Happens here too. (Terminal 0.4.7, bash 4.2.008 under Arch Linux.)

For $HOME the easy solution is to use ~ instead, but that doesn't help for other variables.

nsw42

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Registered: 2010-01-12

Posts: 36

Re: Prevent "escaping" when pressing tab in terminal emulator

Turns out ...
this is a bash problem (new since bash 4.2) or so. Doesnt mean I found a solution.

~ is ok for $HOME; but I am using my own ENV variables pointing to $HERE or $THERE all over the place.