Hi,

Anton Lindqvist wrote on Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:34:10AM +0200:

> Ping, looking for OKs.

I'm not going to even read the patch.

I consider autocompletion vastly overengineered and my opinion
is that it ought to be radically simplified.  For example,
never do autocompletion if there is any character in the word
that is neither alnum nor '/', '.', or '_'.  Yes, that implies
never doing autocompletion in words containing non-ASCII
characters.

In my opinion, autocompletion is a feature where KISS is even
more important than elsewhere.  I *REALLY* don't want to end
up in a position where something as bells-and-whistle-like
and as utterly unimportant as autocompletion causes any serious
bug, least of all in a program as critical as the shell.

That said, if others want to OK it, i won't oppose a commit.

If somebody sends diffs to simplify autocompletion code,
i *will* read them.

Yours,
  Ingo

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