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bug #58619: "dot <Tab><Tab>" showing . and .. is pointless

Submitter:  Benno Schulenberg <bens>
Submitted:  Fri 19 Jun 2020 07:47:48 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Minor Status:  Fixed
Assigned to:  bens Open/Closed:  Closed

Fri 19 Jun 2020 08:14:04 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Fixed in git, commit 6ce4e3ed.

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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Fri 19 Jun 2020 07:47:48 AM UTC, original submission:  

When at a filename prompt and typing: . <Tab> <Tab>, nano shows as possible completions also "." and "..".  But this is useless.  The single dot is just the current directory -- it doesn't bring anything at all.  And if the user wanted something from the parent directory, it would have been quicker to type: .. <Tab> <Tab>.

In my opinion, if the user types dot-tab-tab, they want to see dotfiles.  That is: actual files whose name start with a dot.

So... expected behavior: . <Tab> <Tab> should list only actual dotfiles and not the useless and cluttering "." and "..".

Benno Schulenberg <bens>
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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2020-07-30 bens Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2020-06-20 bens Summary&quot;dot &lt;Tab&gt; &lt;Tab&gt;&quot; showing . and .. is pointless "dot <Tab><Tab>" showing . and .. is pointless
    2020-06-19 bens StatusNone Fixed

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