Bug#743014: unwanted space in gnuplot tab autocomplete

[Guido Avvisati]

I have exactly the same problem and, so far, was unable to find a 
solution. I would add that this bug is extremely annoying.

Additional information

G N U P L O T
Version 4.6 patchlevel 4    last modified 2013-10-02
Build System: Linux x86_64

Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64, kernel 3.17.0-031700

Best,
Guido Avvisati



On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:35:22 -0500 "N Laszlo Frazer" 
<laszlo at laszlofrazer.com> wrote:
 > Package: gnuplot
 > Version: 4.6.4-2
 >
 > Linux 3.11-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.11.10-1 (2013-12-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux
 >
 > G N U P L O T
 > Version 4.6 patchlevel 4 last modified 2013-10-02
 >
 > When typing file names in gnuplot, one can press tab to auto-complete 
the
 > file name. This is a very nice feature. However, since an upgrade (not
 > particularly recent), the file name is automatically followed by a 
space.
 > Gnuplot requires that the file name be followed by a quotation mark. So
 > the user must remove the space for every single file. Reverting to the
 > previous behavior (no automatic space after file name) would be a big
 > improvement. Even better would be if auto-completion automatically
 > inserted a quotation mark followed by a space after the file name.
 >
 > This bug may be readline related.
 >
 >