[Bash-completion-devel] completion of ':' mangles filename

[Reuben Thomas]

On Sun, 11 May 2008, David Paleino wrote:

> ":" is a special Bash character [1], and we can't do anything about that.

There's clearly a bug here: at the very least, non-existent, incorrect 
completions should not be produced. More reasonably, bash's completion 
mechanism should be fixed.

Hence, please reassign the bug as you think fit; I agree that assignment to 
bash would seem to be the obvious choice.

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