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

[Clark J. Wang]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Clark J. Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org
>> >wrote:
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>> > Maarten Billemont <lhunath@gmail.com> writes:
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>> > > 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.
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>> > How do you differentiate between completing file:name and completing
>> > file:name?
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>> I don't understand what did you mean. :(
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> If you complete PATH, you want to be able to press tab after:
> PATH=/bin:/home/clark/ so that it completes "/home/clark"
>  If you complete a file named 'foo:bar' you want to be able to press tab
> after: ls foo:b so that it completes just "foo:b"
> So  how bash can decide if if it should complete just "b" like in the
> example of PATH or "foo:b"?
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That makes it more clear to me. Thanks.

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Clark J. Wang