Re: [Bug-ed] Trailing spaces in filenames

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

John Cowan wrote:
> > You are confusing two things here. Adding a space after doing
> > filename completion so that you can type the next argument is fine.
> > What is a fatal error is to pass such trailing space to the
> > application. It is rlfe the one that should be stripping the
> > trailing space, as the shell does, not ed.
>
> That would require readline to keep track of which trailing spaces
> were supplied by completion and which were not,

Not at all. Spaces that must not be stripped by rlfe can be escaped:

's/foo/foo\ '


Regards,
Antonio.