[Bash-completion-devel] [bash-completion-Bugs][314220] Aliasing sed to "sed --regexp-extended" breaks bash-completion

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bash-completion-Bugs item #314220, was opened at 2013-04-17 18:42 by Kerrick Staley
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Kerrick Staley (kerrick-guest)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Aliasing sed to "sed --regexp-extended" breaks bash-completion 
Distribution: None
Originally reported in: None
Milestone: None
Status: None
Original bug number: 


Initial Comment:
I have sed aliased to "sed --regexp-extended", which bash-completion doesn't seem to like.

One way to fix this would be to replace all instances of sed in bash-completion with \sed: the backslash overrides the alias. Another solution would be to bug the sed developers to add a flag (call it "--regexp-basic") that negates the effect of an earlier --regexp-extended. A third solution would be to somehow have bash-completion not inherit user-defined aliases, but I'm not sure if this is possible.

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