Re: set +o noglob within completion function disables alias expansion

[Chet Ramey]

Ian Macdonald wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a bit of a corner case, but appears to be a bug.
> 
> If one defines a completion function that calls 'set +o noglob' and this
> function is then bound to a command, alias expansion is temporarily
> disabled when the command is executed.
> 
> If the command is subsequently executed again without calling the
> completion function, alias expansion occurs as normal.

This has already been fixed for bash-3.1.  The problem is that shell
function execution during completion didn't save and restore enough
of the parser state.

Chet
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