Re: bug with expansion and backslashes

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Aug 16,  1:14am, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
} Subject: bug with expansion and backslashes
}
} On 25 Apr, Bart wrote:
} > } >  add backslash to alias expansion matching in _expand
} > --- a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
} >    setopt aliases
} >    eval 'exp=( ${${(e)exp//\\[ 	
} > -]/ }//(#b)([ 	
} > +]/ }//(#b)([ 	\\
} >  ])/\\$match[1]} )' 2>/dev/null
} 
} I just noticed that expansion was broken when I tried to expand *\~
} (exiftran backs up files with a trailing ~ and I wanted to clean them up)
} git bisect led me to 33ff5d06 which is the patch above.
} 
} What's not clear to me is what problem this patch was trying to solve.

Look at workers/32186 which refers back to users/18247 and its thread.

It has to do with glob-expansion of file names that contain a character
that needs to be protected with a backslash, particularly file names
actually containing backslashes and/or quote marks.

(In other words, if you had attempted to complete "*~" without having
the backslash in there already, it would have worked and inserted the
backslash for you.)

I have no objection to backing out that change again, although it works
as expected when extendedglob is NOT set.