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On 10/5/15 3:52 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Consider this command:
> 
>   foo $'foo \' bar'
> 
> As far as the bash core is concerned, this command has one argument
> word. But readline, for completion, splits it up into three words:
> 
>   0: foo
>   1: $'abc \'
>   2: bar'
> 
> Shouldn't we be splitting the command line into the same number of words?

Yes, we should, at least for programmable completion.  I found the spot
that needed to be changed, and it will be fixed for the next version.

Chet
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