Re: Completion fails to properly escape parenthesis

[Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Eckhofer wrote:
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> Hi.
> 
> Have a look at this short session:
> > $ mkdir 'some(dir'
> > $ cd some<TAB>
> > $ cd some\(dir
> > cd:5: bad pattern: some(dir
> 
> Obviously, completion fails to escape the '(' properly ("cd some\\\(dir
> works fine).

I must be missing the point here.  some\(dir is exactly the right
quoting for a single parenthesis; the result has just the same effect as
'some(dir'.  Is your cd doing something clever with patterns?  In that
case the problem is there.

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