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

[Clark J. Wang]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>wrote:

> "Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Maarten Billemont <lhunath@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Why are we escaping all word break characters? rm file:name and rm
> >> file\:name are effectively identical, I'm not sure I see the need for
> >> escaping it.
> >>
> >> How do you differentiate between completing file:name and completing
> >> file:name?
> >>
> >>
> > I don't understand what did you mean. :(
>
> You just proved my point.
>
>
It's funny? What's your point and how did I proved it?


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