On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 01:00:30PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 06:47:22AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote: > > On Tue 2011.03.15 at 12:19 +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 04:45:43AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > (this is a re-post) > > > > > > > > make tab completion work for '=', '`', '[', ':', and '$' - pulled from > > > > mksh by Alexander Polakov (also posted to tech recently). > > > > > > This diff doesn't work for me with files containing '['. This is the > > > first character I tested and it failed. > > > > > > > > > $ touch "[this] file.txt" > > > $ cat [<TAB> <--- nothing > > > > You still need to escape these characters. > > > > cat \[<TAB> <-- should now work. > > Okay, tested with all the characters and it works. > > After reading the diff it looks okay to me, but take into consideration > that I'm not well aquainted with this part of the tree and I'm biased > because I really want to have this functionality in ksh!
this is what the diff is really fixing. escaping of []'s already works as long as [ is not the first character, even if it's escaped. i'd like to see this but without the need to escape [ to be honest. f.-