Re: TAB completion of filenames beginning with colon is broken

2019-06-13 Thread Vishal Verma
On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 16:56 +1000, Jason Tyler wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/bash-LQgi2O/bash-5.0=. > -fstack-protector-strong -Wform$ > uname outp

Re: TAB completion of filenames beginning with colon is broken

2019-06-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 6/13/19 2:56 AM, Jason Tyler wrote: > Bash Version: 5.0 > Patch Level: 3 > Release Status: release > > Description: > if a filename begins with ":", then tab completion will turn the colon into > ":\:" This is a pretty old question, old enough to have its own entry in the no-longer-updated ba

TAB completion of filenames beginning with colon is broken

2019-06-13 Thread Jason Tyler
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/bash-LQgi2O/bash-5.0=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wform$ uname output: Linux jpt 5.0.0-16-generic #17-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 15 10:52:21 UT