Comment # 16 on bug 915037 from Martin Pluskal

Why do you thing that this issue is INVALID(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from
comment #15)
> (In reply to Martin Pluskal from comment #14)
> 
> From man:bash(1)
> 
>        COMP_WORDBREAKS
>               The  set  of characters that the readline library treats as
> word
>               separators when performing word completion.  If 
> COMP_WORDBREAKS
>               is  unset, it loses its special properties, even if it is
> subse-
>               quently reset.
> 
> indeed I had removed it my self for the osc TAB completion but then after
> trouble with other completions I had added a workaround in the osc
> completion rules for the colon in the osc paths.

Well once /etc/bash_completion.d/osc.sh is present
# echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS
"'><=;|&(

thus breaking autocompletion for scp.

How could this be resolved as INVALID when issue is apparently present? If
assignee is wrong, you can always reassign it.