On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 08:39:48AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> On Tue 2011.03.15 at 11:14 +0000, Federico G. Schwindt wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think I'm slightly confused as to you'd like fixed - do you mean that
> one shouldn't need to escape a '[' if it's the first character? (note
> that /bin/[ exists).  Else, can you clarify a bit more?  Thanks!

  correct, shouldn't need to escape a '[' if it's teh first character.
  i do know of [, but command and file completion are two different things.  see
bash too.

  f.-

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