Re: Why escape char `:' with `\' when auto completing filenames?

[Clark J. Wang]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 2/18/11 6:52 AM, Clark J. Wang wrote:
>
> >
> > Sth was wrong for my testing. I removed @ from COMP_WORDBREAKS but
> > afterwards one bind command (bind "set bell-style none") added @ back.
>
> I can't reproduce this:
>
> $ echo $BASH_VERSION
> 4.2.0(22)-maint
> $ echo ${COMP_WORDBREAKS}
> "'@><=;|&(:
> $ COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS/@/}
> $ echo ${COMP_WORDBREAKS}
> "'><=;|&(:
> $ bind 'set bell-style none'
> $ echo ${COMP_WORDBREAKS}
> "'><=;|&(:
>
>
I can reproduce this in my 2000+ lines of bashrc but I can't if I run the
command from the command line. I'll see what's the problem.


> Bash hostname completion is independent of the more-recently-added
> programmable completion, which I suspect you might be using.
>
> The default bash completion breaks words at @ and attempts to complete
> hostnames from its own internal list.  Look at the description of
> HOSTFILE and the readline `complete' function in the manual page.
>
> There is a shell option (`hostcomplete') to turn this on and off.
>
> Chet
>
> --
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu
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>



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Clark J. Wang