Chet Ramey wrote: > This might be the result of changes to the bash readline support function > that dequotes filenames. That function was changed as the result of bug > reports against bash-3.2 to better implement shell quoting. That means: > > 1. Backslashes should not be stripped within single quotes. > > 2. Backslashes should only be stripped within double quotes if they're > followed by one of $ ` " \ <newline> > > This affects the behavior of the quote_readline function (or the contexts > in which it should be called) and the behavior of compgen when it receives > arguments with quotes. In this case, it looks like the backslash is > preserved since compgen gets an argument with explicit single quotes.
Attached patch removes escaping of \ -- that seems to solve the simple case of `cat a\ <TAB>', but doesn't help when file name to complete is in single quotes. -- Krzysiek Pawlik <nelchael at gentoo.org> key id: 0xBC555551 desktop-misc, java, apache, ppc, vim, kernel, python...
--- base.orig 2009-03-21 01:12:35.000000000 +0000
+++ base 2009-03-21 01:12:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -127,8 +127,7 @@
# results in the original argument
quote_readline()
{
- local t="${1//\\/\\\\}"
- echo \'${t//\'/\'\\\'\'}\' #'# Help vim syntax highlighting
+ echo \'${1//\'/\'\\\'\'}\' #'# Help vim syntax highlighting
}
# This function shell-dequotes the argument
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