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 :)

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