[ale] Open Suse and the .inputrc issues

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

For whatever worth:

virtual at OpenSUSE-RPM:~> echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
virtual at OpenSUSE-RPM:~> bash -version
GNU bash, version 4.1.10(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.


-Narahari


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:53 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

> Those bugs were fixed in May of 2011.
> Are people really running unpatched the last 2 years?
>
> THAT cannot be the issue here.
>
> I worry about being 3 months behind patching on a single system!
>
> Sorta related, I switched to using powershell as my default shell on
> Windows -
> got tired of the crap interface from cmd.exe. In the 90s, I used 4Dos and
> 4NT to
> work around command.com and cmd.exe suckage. With powershell, I almost
> don't
> mind ... except for all the things MS implemented in Explorer that appear
> to be
> part of the file system, but are not.  Backwards compatibility is a bitch.
>
> On 08/24/2013 08:28 AM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
> > It seems like this is a known bug and needs a patch installed.
> > Googling for "opensuse fail tab completion" leads to many articles
> > where this one mentions this (I think is the same) issue in
> > particular:
> https://build.opensuse.org/patchinfo/show?package=patchinfo.import4528&project=openSUSE%3A11.4%3AUpdate
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hmm. Bash has had tab completion for 10 years. Is it not on by default
> in
> >> opensuse?
> >>
> >> On Aug 23, 2013 10:15 PM, "Narahari 'n' Savitha" <savithari at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Tim:
> >>>
> >>> Dont decry cmd.exe just because it is from M$FT.  The tab completion
> >>> feature of cmd is awesome and it is possible to do that in bash and I
> have
> >>> done it in Arch Linux and it works.  It is having issues in OpenSuse
> 11.4
> >>> hence I am trying to find out why it is behaving the way .inputrc vs
> >>> /etc/inputrc.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas any one.
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