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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