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Completion: smarter symlink completion

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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Completion: smarter symlink completion
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:37:26 +0530
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Hi,

I noticed that symlinks are always completed with the trailing slash,
like directories, and unlike normal files.  This can be problematic if
the user runs `rm -r` on a symlink by mistake.  Is this really a bug,
or am I misunderstanding something?

Thanks.

Ram

p.s- Please CC me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list.

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