How to prevent bash from extending ~ to full name of home dir on tab?

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Published on 2010-05-07T08:06:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/07 8:18 UTC
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Hi

In my bash I got the behavior like this: when I type:

cd ~/projects/p   <press tab>

the bash extends the ~ part to the full name of my home dir:

cd /home/kender/projects/p

I remember it wasn't happening some time ago. Is that configurable in bash?

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