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

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Hi,


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 06:45:52PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > 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

That doesn't fix the issue at hand.  _init_completion() invokes
_get_comp_words_by_ref() before that check to set all variables [1],
which will in turn try to access the -1th element of the array when
setting $prev, producing the same error.


Best,
Gábor


[1]: http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-completion.git;a=blob;f=bash_completion;h=e88e2fc8cd97f2a43173b45a1448451bb53e55ab;hb=457dbf6061eea5f2d1e3bccacf1691265f7321cc#l708
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