Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Makes sense. I don't remember having relied on that behaviour. -- Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas PGP Key fingerprint: 61DB D9A0 00A4 67CF 2A90 8961 6191 8FBF 06A1 1494
