The usual behaviour for TAB completion in bash/readline is that the first TAB will complete any text which is common to all possible completions, the second TAB rings the bell, the third TAB shows possible completions. This is what happens in xterm, so it's not my bash/readlin/inputrc configuration. In konsole, the very first time I use TAB to complete, this is what happens. But for every attempted completion after this, the first TAB rings the bell, *even where there is common text to be inserted*, the second TAB does the completion of this common text, the third shows the possible completions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open konsole 2. Type 'ls <text which begins 2 or more filenames in cwd>' 3. Hit TAB (will complete common text) 4. Hit <return> 5. Type the same text as in 2, and hit TAB Actual Results: The first TAB (in step 3) will complete up to the point where the filenames differ, the second TAB (in step 5) will ring the terminal bell. Another TAB after that will complete the common text. Expected Results: TAB completion should stay consistent, ideally the first TAB should complete any common text. Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6. 8-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3. 3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config / usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype video_cards_radeon x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib" /etc/inputrc (I have no ~/.inputrc) ---------------------------------------------- # /etc/inputrc: # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/inputrc,v 1.8 2004/02/19 19: 29:18 azarah Exp $ # do not bell on tab-completion #set bell-style none set meta-flag on set input-meta on set convert-meta off set output-meta on # Completed names which are symbolic links to # directories have a slash appended. set mark-symlinked-directories on $if mode=emacs # for linux console and RH/Debian xterm "\e[1~": beginning-of-line "\e[4~": end-of-line #"\e[5~": beginning-of-history #"\e[6~": end-of-history "\e[5~": history-search-backward "\e[6~": history-search-forward "\e[3~": delete-char "\e[2~": quoted-insert "\e[5C": forward-word "\e[5D": backward-word # for rxvt "\e[8~": end-of-line # for non RH/Debian xterm, can't hurt for RH/Debian xterm "\eOH": beginning-of-line "\eOF": end-of-line # for freebsd console "\e[H": beginning-of-line "\e[F": end-of-line $endif # fix Home and End for German users "\e[7~": beginning-of-line "\e[8~": end-of-line
Damn, how could this bug come back to life? take a look here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73205 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69638
Sounds like the upstream bugs have come back to life. Your best bet is to reopen one of the ones at bugs.kde.org or file a new one linking to them.
