Re: About `M-C-e` expand result `'` failed

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/29/24 12:51 AM, A4-Tacks wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 21
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
>       input M-C-e (shell-expand-line),
>       expand the result containing `'` (single quotation mark) failed.
>
> Repeat-By:
>       ```bash
>       # echo "$(echo $'ab\n\'cd\nef')"
>       ab
>       'cd
>       ef
>       # echo "$(echo $'ab\n\'cd\nef')"  # input M-C-e
>       # echo "$(echo $'ab\n\'cd\nef')"bash: bad substitution: no closing `)' in echo 
> "$(echo $'ab\n\'cd\nef')"
>       ```

Thanks for the report. This was a pretty easy fix in the end, just needed
to make sure the completion/readline flags were propagated through the
expansion code properly.

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