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On 10/5/15 3:52 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Consider this command:
>
> foo $'foo \' bar'
>
> As far as the bash core is concerned, this command has one argument
> word. But readline, for completion, splits it up into three words:
>
> 0: foo
> 1: $'abc \'
> 2: bar'
>
> Shouldn't we be splitting the command line into the same number of words?
I'll take a look. Readline is a general-purpose library and knows very
little about shell syntax.
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