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RE: completion in quotes - " vs ' - no suffix added

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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: completion in quotes - " vs ' - no suffix added
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 19:35:25 +0400
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> 
> > On May 14,  2:23pm, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> > }
> > } -rw-rw-r--   1 schaefer schaefer        0 May 13 10:29 a\ b
> > } drwxrwxr-x   2 schaefer schaefer     1024 May 13 10:29 a\ d/
> > } schaefer<503> zsh -c "ls a<TAB>
> > } schaefer<503> zsh -c "ls a\\\\\\
> >
> > It's worse than that -- if I type TAB again at this point, the shell
> > crashes.
> 
> The number of backslashes is ok.
> 

It is weird situation where there may be 5 or 6 backslashes without
changing semantic because in double quotes

\\non-meta

is exactly the same as

\non-meta

-andrej

References:
- Re: completion in quotes - " vs ' - no suffix added
  - From: Sven Wischnowsky

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