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Re: readline and bash disagree on $'' quoting

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Subject Re: readline and bash disagree on $'' quoting
Date Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:21:36 -0400
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On 10/5/15 3:52 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> Consider this command:
> 
>   foo $'foo \' bar'
> 
> As far as the bash core is concerned, this command has one argument
> word. But readline, for completion, splits it up into three words:
> 
>   0: foo
>   1: $'abc \'
>   2: bar'
> 
> Shouldn't we be splitting the command line into the same number of words?

I'll take a look.  Readline is a general-purpose library and knows very
little about shell syntax.

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Re: readline and bash disagree on $'' quoting Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2015-10-06 09:21 -0400

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