Re: bash: ":?xxx" filename broken on autocomplete

[Andreas Schwab]

On Apr 27 2024, Kerin Millar wrote:

> In the course of trying this in bash-5.3-alpha, I noticed something else. If 
> ':?aa' is not the only entry in the current working directory, readline 
> behaves as if :<tab> is an ambiguous completion. That is:
>
> # mkdir ':?aa'
> # touch 'something-else'
> # rmdir :<tab>
>
> ... produces nothing until pressing the tab key a second time, after which 
> both entries are listed while the content of readline's input buffer remains 
> unchanged.

':' is in $COMP_WORDBREAKS.

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