On Apr 27 2024, Kerin Millar wrote: > 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.
':' is in $COMP_WORDBREAKS. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
