Re: show-all-if-ambiguous inserts spurious backslashes

2013-03-10 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/10/13 5:26 PM, Marcel (Felix) Giannelia wrote: > If you have "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" in your .inputrc, typing > this sequence in bash (in a directory containing some non-hidden files): > > echo * > > Results in the list of possible matches being displayed (as expected), > but the comm

show-all-if-ambiguous inserts spurious backslashes

2013-03-10 Thread Felix
If you have "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" in your .inputrc, typing this sequence in bash (in a directory containing some non-hidden files): echo * Results in the list of possible matches being displayed (as expected), but the command line is then edited to: echo \* Which is probably not what t