Re: bash: ":?xxx" filename broken on autocomplete

[Kerin Millar]

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:56:28 +0200
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Apr 27 2024, Kerin Millar wrote:
> 
> > In the course of trying this in bash-5.3-alpha, I noticed something else. 
> > If ':?aa' is not the only entry in the current working directory, readline 
> > behaves as if :<tab> is an ambiguous completion. That is:
> >
> > # mkdir ':?aa'
> > # touch 'something-else'
> > # rmdir :<tab>
> >
> > ... produces nothing until pressing the tab key a second time, after which 
> > both entries are listed while the content of readline's input buffer 
> > remains unchanged.
> 
> ':' is in $COMP_WORDBREAKS.

Ah, I see.

-- 
Kerin Millar