[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#544024: Completion with backslashes broken

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 03 Sep 2009, EspeonEefi wrote:
> --- /etc/bash_completion.orig	2009-09-03 08:21:15.229720217 -0400
> +++ /etc/bash_completion	2009-09-03 08:21:36.473719600 -0400
> @@ -213,6 +213,10 @@
>  # results in the original argument
>  quote_readline()
>  {
> +	if [ ${BASH_VERSINFO[0]} -gt 3 ]; then
> +		echo "$1"
> +		return
> +	fi
>  	local t="${1//\\/\\\\}"
>  	echo \'${t//\'/\'\\\'\'}\' #'# Help vim syntax highlighting
>  }

Thanks, that at least fixed the problem for me. I have added
these 4 lines for now and hope for what upstream is doing.

Best wishes

Norbert

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