Ticket #4295 (new enhancement) — at Initial Version
Tilde + username expansion in copy/move dialogs does not work
| Reported by: | ZlatkO | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | tilde username expansion tab completion | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description
See subject: tilde + username expansion (ie. to expand to a certain user's $HOME) in copy/move dialogs does not work. If I enter a tilde character in the destination field followed by one or more characters (ie. ~apa) and then hit <TAB>, nothing happens. If I complete the username myself, followed by a slash (ie. ~apache/), then the rest of the <TAB> completion works as expected.
So it seems that MC actually does understand the ~username/ concept as such in the copy/move dialogs (ie. files do end up in the correct destination), but it can't complete the ~userna<TAB> part by itself. I'm pretty sure that this did already work in some earlier version, but I'm not 100% sure. :-)
Fun fact: in MC's command line widget, this works just fine, ie. entering ~apa<TAB> gets properly completed to ~apache/. So the command line widget's completion code path is probably a different one than the copy/move dialog's one.
