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From: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Complete value from list with colons
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:28:07 -0400
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On 8/24/2019 1:26 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Scott Frazer wrote on Sat, 24 Aug 2019 12:44 +00:00:
>> I would like to do completion from a list of values that have ':' in
>> them, something like:
>>
>> _values foo a::b c::d
>>
>> and have it offer 'a::b' and 'c::d' as choices, but I can't figure out
>> how to escape the ':' in the completion system.
> 
> Backslashes:
> 
> [[[
> % _f() { _values desc 'foo\:\:FOO' 'bar\:\:BAR' }
> % f <TAB>
>> desc
> bar::BAR  foo::FOO
> %
> ]]]
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Daniel
> 

Thanks, I thought I had tried all combinations of quotes and backslashes 
but apparently not.