Re: Prefixed backslash removed when completing command

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 ...