Re: No filename expansion in shell-expand-line

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/12/24 3:28 AM, Martin Schulte wrote:
> Hello,
>
> from the documentation I understand that shell-expand-line (ESC CTRL-E) should 
> do alias expansion, history expansion, brace expansion, tilde expansion, shell 
> parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, process 
> substitution (if supported by the operation system), word splitting, filename 
> expansion and quote removal.

It doesn't do filename expansion and never has, going all the way back
to when it was first added in 1989, and the current man page doesn't
include it in the enumerated list of expansions it performs:

shell-expand-line (M-C-e)
       Expand the line by performing shell word expansions.  This  per-
       forms alias and history expansion, $'string' and $"string" quot-
       ing, tilde expansion, parameter and variable  expansion,  arith-
       metic expansion, word splitting, and quote removal.  See HISTORY
       EXPANSION below for a description of history expansion.

This is an update from the bash-5.2 man page, the result of

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2023-03/msg00031.html

There's a separate bindable command to perform filename expansion.

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