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Re: [PATCH] Escaping of : in a _describe completion

On Wednesday 15 of April 2009 21:46:20 Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:09:49 +0400
>
> Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 of April 2009 13:22:00 Frank Blendinger wrote:
> > > Could I get my old behaviour somehow, with a menu of my etherwake
> > > completion showing up after the second <Tab>?
> >
> > Please try if attached patch helps (and does not break something
> > else). I do not claim to understand how quoting is actually handled
> > by completion but at least compdescribe does remove backslashes and
> > compadd does not seem to.
> >
> > I'd like to get final word from Peter before committing this. Also
> > some more clear statement in manual is needed.
>
> Probably ought to be unquoting backslashes rather than removing them
> completely; something like replacing \\(#b)(?) with $match[1], I
> suppose.  Otherwise, if it works and nobody's spotted any side
> effects yet we probably just need to try it.

Committed with your suggestion and simple doc clarification.

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