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

[Andreas Schwab]

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

> 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. :(

You just proved my point.

Andreas.

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