Re: PATCH: _expand, _expand_word, and their doc

["Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 5,  7:34pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
}
} > What would you (or anyone else) think of removing insert-all-completions
} > from _expand entirely (thus eliminating the -c option) and instead put
} > compstate[insert]=all at the end of _expand_word (after _main_complete)?
} 
} What has inserting all *completions* to do with *expansions* (and thus
} _expand_word)?

You're starting from an initial pattern and expanding it into a set of
strings, aren't you?  What difference does it make whether the way you
got those strings was by globbing, parameter substitution, history, or
by invoking the completion system, or anything else?

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