From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Mikael Auno <auno@kth.se>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Prefixed backslash removed when completing command
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:43:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <101027084345.ZM31119@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027110240.16941d1f@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri>
On Oct 27, 11:02am, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} The internals of completion are complicated. There is no prospect of it
} ever being able to preserve quotations in a general way. In particular
} there is no prospect of it ever being able to retain backslashes that
} have no basic syntactic effect.
It strikes me that it might be possible to special-case a backslash as
the very first character in $BUFFER, but it's probably not worth the
effort ...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-20 11:28 Mikael Auno
2010-05-20 12:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-10-27 9:06 ` Mikael Auno
2010-10-27 10:02 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-10-27 10:41 ` Mikael Auno
2010-10-27 10:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2010-10-27 12:23 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-10-27 12:29 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-10-27 12:49 ` PATCH: document more alias problems Peter Stephenson
2010-10-27 10:49 ` Prefixed backslash removed when completing command Mikael Magnusson
2010-10-27 15:43 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
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