Subject: Re: [BUG] Autocompletion fails with "bash: words: bad array subscript"

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 18:45:52 -0500

SZEDER Gábor wrote:

> Thinking a bit more about it, you don't even need to search history to
> reproduce.

Yep.  Doing

 $ . /etc/bash_completion
 $ ls<^A><TAB>
 bash: words: bad array subscript

produces the same.

> So the bug is definitely not git-related.  The fix would be a check
> along the lines of the first two hunks of the patch I just sent out.

FWIW it looks like the bash-completion lib adopted a different fix
recently: see [1] (_init_completion: Indicate that completion should
not continue if cword == 0, 2011-05-02).

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=457dbf6061eea5f2d1e3bccacf1691265f7321cc