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Re: Why escape char `:' with `\' when auto completing filenames?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Why escape char `:' with `\' when auto completing filenames?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:00:48 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

"Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:

> I think char `:' is not special in bash.

$ printf "%q\n" "$COMP_WORDBREAKS" 
$' \t\n"\'><=;|&(:'

Andreas.

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