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

[Clark J. Wang]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>wrote:

> "Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think char `:' is not special in bash.
>
> $ printf "%q\n" "$COMP_WORDBREAKS"
> $' \t\n"\'><=;|&(:'
>
>
I don't think that explain the issue. Try like this (tested with 4.2):

# COMP_WORDBREAKS+=-
# touch aaaa-bbbb
# ls aaaa<TAB>    <-- Here the `-' char will not be escaped

And, even the char `)' is not by default included in COMP_WORDBREAKS it'll
also be escaped with filename autocompletion. Seems like the behavior has no
direct relation with the var COMP_WORDBREAKS.


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