On 4/27/24 5:46 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
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.
The word being completed is "".
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