Re: Shell completion not honouring escaped characters

[Chet Ramey]

Andrew Parker wrote:
> BASH_VERSION 3.1.1(1)-release
> Running on Fedora Core 5 (test 2)
> 
> Pressing tab on a line with escape characters will ignore, and remove,
> the escaped characters to perform the completion.  For example, pressing
> tab at the end of each of these lines removes the "\" and changes the
> meaning of the line.
> 
>    ls \~andy/
>    ls \`pwd`/

I believe I can fix this with some code rearrangement, at the cost of
slightly altering the requirements imposed on
rl_directory_completion_hook.

Chet
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