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


From: Clark J. Wang
Subject: Re: Why escape char `:' with `\' when auto completing filenames?
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:17:17 +0800

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. :(


>  Andreas.
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