On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Clark J. Wang <dearv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org > >wrote: > > > Maarten Billemont <lhun...@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. :( If you complete PATH, you want to be able to press tab after: PATH=/bin:/home/clark/ so that it completes "/home/clark" If you complete a file named 'foo:bar' you want to be able to press tab after: ls foo:b so that it completes just "foo:b" So how bash can decide if if it should complete just "b" like in the example of PATH or "foo:b"?
