[Bug 470824] Re: spurious trailing space after tab completion

[Shevek]

Workaround for bash-completion: disable it (complete -r), and just use
the native completion (i.e. complete-everything). This is more usable
than a spurious space after every tab in bash.

** Also affects: bash-completion (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  spurious trailing space after tab completion

Status in IPython - Enhanced Interactive Python:
  Invalid
Status in Python:
  New
Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “python2.6” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in Gentoo Linux:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When linked against readline6, Python's readline module inserts a
  space after tab completions.  This differs from previous versions and
  in most cases is unwanted.

  TEST CASE:
  $ python
  >>> import rlcompleter
  >>> import readline
  >>> readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
  >>> read<TAB>

  Should expand to "readline" with no trailing space.

  Original description:
  Using IPython 0.10, when I use tab completion after cd, IPython inserts an extra space at the end of the trailing /. This makes it hard to use tab completion again to go into a subdirectory.
  Strangely enough, after ls, no trailing space gets inserted.

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