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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:43:45 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
 "Re: Prefixed backslash removed when completing command" (Oct 27, 11:02am)
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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 ...