Antwort: File completion of scp (tentative fix)

[Andreas Pistoor <andreas.pistoor@db.com>]

Hello,

> Supposing you have a remote host with a file in the home directory that 
begins
> with a dash, the completion may fail because the file argument is 
interpreted
> by ls as an option.
> 
> See the attached patch, which adds a -- before the pattern, so that 
files
> starting with a dash won't possibly be considered as options.  This is 
the way
> to go with a GNU ls on the other side, but I don't know how other 
versions
> will interpret that.  Maybe something more sophisticated has to be done 
to
> remain as generic as possible.
if the file is in the home directory, should it not be possible, to 
prepend ./ to its name?

Greetings
Andreas

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