[Discuss] Bash auto completion broken by Adobe

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

My bash autocompletion recently stopped working.  So trying to do things
like
  cd ~/Ubuntu\ One/

by typing
  cd ~/Ubu[tab]

would not work properly.

The escaped space would be stripped out; the directory would not be
recognized as such, so the trailing slash would be removed; and to make
matters still worse, an extra space would be appended to the path, so that
if you really wanted a subdirectory, then you'd have to edit the command
line.

Needless to say, this was very annoying, but I lived with it for a while
because I didn't have time to look into it.

I found out that Adobe Acrobat may be the culprit.  For me, I definitely
fixed the problem by removing /etc/bash_completion.d/acroread.sh  There is
some debate about it, and it's possible that there is a bug in the
underlying auto_complete project.  Anyone with expertise in bash readline
etc. care to chime in?

http://equality-tech.com/content/adobe-acrobat-fault

Greg Rundlett