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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/20/11 10:11 PM, Clark J. Wang wrote:

> I just tried with a very simple ~/.bashrc:
> 
> COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//[:@]/}
> printf '%q\n' "$COMP_WORDBREAKS"
> 
> bind "set bell-style none"
> printf '%q\n' "$COMP_WORDBREAKS"
> 
> When bash starts, I can see:
> 
> $' \t\n"\'><=;|&('
> $'@ \t\n"\'><=;|&('
> bash-4.2#
> 
> And other bind command like bind "set completion-ignore-case on" can also
> reproduce.

This has to do with whether or not you run this command before readline
initializes.  It will be fixed in the next version of bash.

Chet

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