Re: [PATCH 5/5] gdb: remove special case completion word handling for filenames

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>,
> 	Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:24:02 +0000
> 
> Eli,
> 
> CC-ing you directly as the work I'm touching was originally done by
> you, see:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2001-February/007313.html
> 
> The original email mentions 4 cases:
> 
>   - completion on a file name in a list of file names didn't work;
>   - GDB would not always append a slash if the completion is a directory;
>   - completion failed when the file name had non-file-name characters,
>     such as redirection, around it;
>   - on DOS/Windows, completion would fail with files with a drive letter.
> 
> I believe I've tested the first 3 of these and they all seem to work
> fine still, but I don't have a working Windows machine on which I can
> test case #4.  I just wanted to bring this change to your attention in
> case you wanted to build/test this and check that completion around
> drive letters was still working as expected.

Thanks.  I won't have enough time for this soon enough, unfortunately.
Maybe someone else could do that?  I've taken the liberty of CC'ing
Hannes, in the hope that he could find some time for this soon.