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

[Andreas Schwab]

"Clark J. Wang" <dearvoid@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

  /* characters that need to be quoted when appearing in filenames. */
  rl_filename_quote_characters = " \t\n\\\"'@<>=;|&()#$`?*[!:{~";       /*}*/

Andreas.

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