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tmux seems to override my default bash behavior. Suppose export someDir=/path/to/it, then in my shell

1. Hitting tab on cd $someDir automatically adds a front slash, cd $someDir/. On tmux it does nothing, and prints $someDir (literally).


2. Hitting tab on cd $someDir/ lists the contents. On tmux it expands the variable. Only two more tabs show the contents.

I have double checked both are running Bash, and if pertinent, this is my config:

set -g status-style bg=black
set -g status-style fg=red
set-window-option -g xterm-keys on
set -g terminal-overrides 'xterm*:smcup@:rmcup@'

How can I reproduce the original behavior?

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@Kusalananda's comment made me think that tmux might be overriding my completion settings. Hitting complete in a normal shell lists just 2 git wrappers. tmux shows a ton.

I'm not using tmux, but what I found (with horror) is that it's re-enabling the "programmable completion" of bash that I had long commented out in /etc/bash.bashrc -- thence the puzzling behavior you observed.

That's because tmux is exec'ing bash as a login shell (with argv[0] set to -bash) which is causing it to source /etc/profile and then /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh.

You have too options:

a) make the completion behavior the one you like in both login and non-login shells by editing .bash_profile and .bashrc

b) convince tmux not to run a login shell, eg. by

set -g default-command "/bin/bash"

in .tmux.conf