On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 09:33:25AM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> > wrote: > > Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> writes: > >> If ksh is going to treat : as magic, then it needs to escape it when > >> autocompleting. (step 2 above) > > > > I do agree, but... why should ':' be special? > > So that things like > PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/b<tab> > and > scp target:/etc/pass<tab> > > will autocomplete the paths to the right of the colon.
The right fix would probably be to make :: not special... good luck with that :)