What can mess up the order of the tab completion












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I am experiencing a difference of behavior between my previous OS (Ubuntu Xenial) and my current one (Ubuntu Bionic).



The short story is this:



When using tab completion with cd, the order of the tab completion has changed.



To demonstrate the problem, imagine I have this directory structure (all dirs):



/vagrant/hello
/vagrant/hello/web
/vagrant/hello/web/hello.com


And I have CDPATH=.:/vagrant:/vagrant/hello/web



In the past, cd hel<TAB> showed hello first, and hello.com second:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello/ hello.com/


But now, it shows it in reverse order, which is undesirable:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello.com/ hello/


Nothing that is under my control has changed between the two versions.





The longer story (just for reference, I believe it should not matter):



A) I am a "heavy user" of CDPATH - this order change is completely messing up my rhythm.



B) In reality, I am using this .inputrc file, to actually do menu-complete on tab (the output above is from Shift+Tab, which is the normal complete).



TAB: menu-complete
"e[Z": complete


C) I have tried reproducing this in a clean (Docker) environment, but I am unable to reproduce the "bad" behavior.



D) I have tried some variations of menu-complete-backwards and the likes, but the results are not better.



E) I have tried endless variations of CDPATH values, including changing the order and adding :. at the end.



F) When doing cd something<TAB>, it even seems that the completion will favor directories that are NOT in the current directory, before choosing the ones that are in the current directory - even when CDPATH starts with a dot - .:/other/paths



I don't know how else to debug this problem, any help is greatly appreciated.










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  • What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 21:32











  • LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 21:55


















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I am experiencing a difference of behavior between my previous OS (Ubuntu Xenial) and my current one (Ubuntu Bionic).



The short story is this:



When using tab completion with cd, the order of the tab completion has changed.



To demonstrate the problem, imagine I have this directory structure (all dirs):



/vagrant/hello
/vagrant/hello/web
/vagrant/hello/web/hello.com


And I have CDPATH=.:/vagrant:/vagrant/hello/web



In the past, cd hel<TAB> showed hello first, and hello.com second:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello/ hello.com/


But now, it shows it in reverse order, which is undesirable:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello.com/ hello/


Nothing that is under my control has changed between the two versions.





The longer story (just for reference, I believe it should not matter):



A) I am a "heavy user" of CDPATH - this order change is completely messing up my rhythm.



B) In reality, I am using this .inputrc file, to actually do menu-complete on tab (the output above is from Shift+Tab, which is the normal complete).



TAB: menu-complete
"e[Z": complete


C) I have tried reproducing this in a clean (Docker) environment, but I am unable to reproduce the "bad" behavior.



D) I have tried some variations of menu-complete-backwards and the likes, but the results are not better.



E) I have tried endless variations of CDPATH values, including changing the order and adding :. at the end.



F) When doing cd something<TAB>, it even seems that the completion will favor directories that are NOT in the current directory, before choosing the ones that are in the current directory - even when CDPATH starts with a dot - .:/other/paths



I don't know how else to debug this problem, any help is greatly appreciated.










share|improve this question

























  • What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 21:32











  • LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 21:55
















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I am experiencing a difference of behavior between my previous OS (Ubuntu Xenial) and my current one (Ubuntu Bionic).



The short story is this:



When using tab completion with cd, the order of the tab completion has changed.



To demonstrate the problem, imagine I have this directory structure (all dirs):



/vagrant/hello
/vagrant/hello/web
/vagrant/hello/web/hello.com


And I have CDPATH=.:/vagrant:/vagrant/hello/web



In the past, cd hel<TAB> showed hello first, and hello.com second:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello/ hello.com/


But now, it shows it in reverse order, which is undesirable:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello.com/ hello/


Nothing that is under my control has changed between the two versions.





The longer story (just for reference, I believe it should not matter):



A) I am a "heavy user" of CDPATH - this order change is completely messing up my rhythm.



B) In reality, I am using this .inputrc file, to actually do menu-complete on tab (the output above is from Shift+Tab, which is the normal complete).



TAB: menu-complete
"e[Z": complete


C) I have tried reproducing this in a clean (Docker) environment, but I am unable to reproduce the "bad" behavior.



D) I have tried some variations of menu-complete-backwards and the likes, but the results are not better.



E) I have tried endless variations of CDPATH values, including changing the order and adding :. at the end.



F) When doing cd something<TAB>, it even seems that the completion will favor directories that are NOT in the current directory, before choosing the ones that are in the current directory - even when CDPATH starts with a dot - .:/other/paths



I don't know how else to debug this problem, any help is greatly appreciated.










share|improve this question
















I am experiencing a difference of behavior between my previous OS (Ubuntu Xenial) and my current one (Ubuntu Bionic).



The short story is this:



When using tab completion with cd, the order of the tab completion has changed.



To demonstrate the problem, imagine I have this directory structure (all dirs):



/vagrant/hello
/vagrant/hello/web
/vagrant/hello/web/hello.com


And I have CDPATH=.:/vagrant:/vagrant/hello/web



In the past, cd hel<TAB> showed hello first, and hello.com second:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello/ hello.com/


But now, it shows it in reverse order, which is undesirable:



$ cd hel<TAB>
hello.com/ hello/


Nothing that is under my control has changed between the two versions.





The longer story (just for reference, I believe it should not matter):



A) I am a "heavy user" of CDPATH - this order change is completely messing up my rhythm.



B) In reality, I am using this .inputrc file, to actually do menu-complete on tab (the output above is from Shift+Tab, which is the normal complete).



TAB: menu-complete
"e[Z": complete


C) I have tried reproducing this in a clean (Docker) environment, but I am unable to reproduce the "bad" behavior.



D) I have tried some variations of menu-complete-backwards and the likes, but the results are not better.



E) I have tried endless variations of CDPATH values, including changing the order and adding :. at the end.



F) When doing cd something<TAB>, it even seems that the completion will favor directories that are NOT in the current directory, before choosing the ones that are in the current directory - even when CDPATH starts with a dot - .:/other/paths



I don't know how else to debug this problem, any help is greatly appreciated.







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  • What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 21:32











  • LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 21:55





















  • What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 21:32











  • LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 21:55



















What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

– steeldriver
Feb 3 at 21:32





What is the locale? in particular, the order seems to depend on LC_COLLATE

– steeldriver
Feb 3 at 21:32













LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 21:55







LANGUAGE is empty, but everything else when running locale shows C.UTF-8 and locale -a shows en_US.utf8

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 21:55












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The completion order appears to depend on the current locale - in particular LC_COLLATE



Ex.




$ LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello.com/ hello/

$ LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello/ hello.com/





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  • It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:12











  • @DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 22:15











  • Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:30











  • And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:37













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The completion order appears to depend on the current locale - in particular LC_COLLATE



Ex.




$ LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello.com/ hello/

$ LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello/ hello.com/





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  • It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:12











  • @DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 22:15











  • Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:30











  • And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:37


















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The completion order appears to depend on the current locale - in particular LC_COLLATE



Ex.




$ LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello.com/ hello/

$ LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello/ hello.com/





share|improve this answer
























  • It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:12











  • @DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 22:15











  • Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:30











  • And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:37
















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The completion order appears to depend on the current locale - in particular LC_COLLATE



Ex.




$ LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello.com/ hello/

$ LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello/ hello.com/





share|improve this answer













The completion order appears to depend on the current locale - in particular LC_COLLATE



Ex.




$ LC_COLLATE="C.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello.com/ hello/

$ LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
$
$ cd helloTABTAB
hello/ hello.com/






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  • It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:12











  • @DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 22:15











  • Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:30











  • And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:37





















  • It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:12











  • @DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

    – steeldriver
    Feb 3 at 22:15











  • Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:30











  • And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

    – DannyB
    Feb 3 at 22:37



















It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:12





It works! Thanks a lot. Not sure if I should just set LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" in my ~/.bashrc or use a more formal way to set the locale, but I guess I can look it up.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:12













@DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

– steeldriver
Feb 3 at 22:15





@DannyB tbh I'm not sure the "right" way to set locales...

– steeldriver
Feb 3 at 22:15













Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:30





Thats ok, thanks. I guess this page is my next stop.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:30













And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:37







And the last piece of the puzzle is : sudo localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

– DannyB
Feb 3 at 22:37




















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