norman.walsh.name: Comments on /2003/09/29/patchbashhttp://norman.walsh.name/2003/09/29/patchbash/comments.atom2012-02-13T08:26:21.922034ZComment 1 on /2003/09/29/patchbashhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00012003-09-30T04:56:11Z2003-09-30T04:56:11ZArien da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Guess this was your post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200111/msg05061.html

Reasoning: http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2003-05/msg00134.html

Found through: http://www.google.com/search?q=bash+symbolic+link+tab+completion

Comment 2 on /2003/09/29/patchbashhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00022003-10-03T11:56:20Z2003-10-03T11:56:20ZJean-Baptiste Quenotda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

On Debian, bash installation includes /etc/bash_completion, which you can source in your .bashrc. It will naturally add a trailing slash when completing symlinks to directories, and also provide you with many more completions.

By default, it is not sourced.

Comment 3 on /2003/09/29/patchbashhttp://norman.walsh.name/2010/09/25/oauth#comment00032003-10-03T12:04:57Z2003-10-03T12:04:57ZJean-Baptiste Quenotda39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Ooops, no I was wrong. In fact it is an optional behaviour that can be disabled by adding the following line in your .inputrc:

set mark-symlinked-directories on

Sometimes you want to remove the link itself, without a trailing slash, and sometimes you want to access the target (with trailing slash). That was the intention of the author when performing this change.