[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#511149: Doesn't handle escaped spaces in /etc/fstab well

[David Paleino]

Hello James,

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:35:16 +0000, James Westby wrote:

> Package: bash-completion
> Version: 20080705
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash-completion/+bug/219971
> Danil Ilinykh reported that the handling of escaped spaces in /etc/fstab
> is not ideal.
> 
> "Because of I can't use "/some path" or /some\ path in fstab, I write
> some\040path as mount point. I write "mount /some" in bash and press
> Tab, I see "mount /some\\040path" instead of "mount /some\ path""

About \040 becoming \\040, we can't really do anything, sorry -- that's Bash
escaping special chars ("\" in this case).

About handling whitespace in mountpoints, I will work on it.

Thank you,
David

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