On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:28:49 +0200 Gioele Barabucci <gio...@svario.it> wrote:
> Control: found -1 5.2.21-2 > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:36:03 +0200 Philipp Marek <phil...@marek.priv.at> > wrote: > > the autocompletion is broken on filenames or directories with ":?" at the > > beginning. > > > > # mkdir ':?aa' > > # rmdir :<tab> > > > > gives me > > > > # rmdir :\:\? > > > > which doesn't match the filename; I can finish completion by entering "aa", > > but then "rm" rejects this name. > > In bash 5.2.21(1) the filename is now fully completed, but the stray ":" > at the beginning is still produced: > > $ mkdir ':?aa' > $ rmdir :<TAB> > $ rmdir :\:\?aa/ In the course of trying this in bash-5.3-alpha, I noticed something else. If ':?aa' is not the only entry in the current working directory, readline behaves as if :<tab> is an ambiguous completion. That is: # mkdir ':?aa' # touch 'something-else' # rmdir :<tab> ... produces nothing until pressing the tab key a second time, after which both entries are listed while the content of readline's input buffer remains unchanged. -- Kerin Millar
