[IPython-dev] cd a little hyper

[Fernando Perez]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, John Hunter <jdh2358 at gmail.com> wrote:
> To due a readline bug on solaris, cd ~/somedTAB used to insert extra
> white space after completing directories, which was a major headache
> when navigating deeply nested directories since I had to backspace
> after every directory completion.   Using the latest ipython rom bzr,
> this appears to be fixed.  I don't know how it was fixed, but it is
> great.  (thanks).
>
> But I notice a new buglet.  If I am cd-ing into a dir which has a
> bunch of files and one other dir, cd will take me one level too deep.
> Eg,  I want to cd into "api"::
>
>  In [18]: !ls -laF /home/titan/johnh/mpl/examples/api/
>  total 144
>  drwx------   3 johnh    research    1024 Jun  5 17:21 ./
>  drwxr-----  13 johnh    research   16896 Jun  3 15:55 ../
>  drwx------   6 johnh    research     512 Jun  5 17:23 .svn/
>  -rw-------   1 johnh    research    1780 Jun  3 15:54 README.txt
>  -rw-------   1 johnh    research     400 Jun  3 15:54 agg_oo.py
>  ..snipsnip (lots more plain files but .svn is the only subdir)
>
> Now when I do::
>
>  In [19]: cd /home/titan/johnh/mpl/examples/ap<TAB>
>
> I get the following completion::
>
>  In [19]: cd /home/titan/johnh/mpl/examples/api/.svn/
>
> Ie, it puts me one directory too deep.
>
> Any ideas?
> JDH
> In [19]: import IPython
>
> In [20]: IPython.__version__
> Out[20]: '0.8.4'
>
> In [21]: !uname -a
> SunOS flag 5.10 Generic_118855-15 i86pc i386 i86pc

Mhh, I don't see that here.  Could you let me know if you see this on BIC?

Cheers,


f