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

[David Paleino]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 23:06:06 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> On Thursday 03 September 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Practically the same thing.  There's just no release with this fix out yet.
> 
> http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-
> completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=1421e55aac075e13491cd212b796bdd453214a2c
> 
> http://git.debian.org/?p=bash-completion/bash-
> completion.git;a=commitdiff;h=4475d3634923de7a169c67aaa197f388bb418de8

I hope we can get a release out in September :)

Kindly,
David

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