Re: Complete value from list with colons

[Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.