remote files completion: remove double-escaping

[fugidev]

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Removes the double escaping in the remote files completion. This affects rsync and scp. Instead of for example a space character in a remote filename turning into \\\ , it will now correctly turn into \ . While scp apparently works with either one, rsync supports only the latter since version 3.2.4. This has been a problem for almost two years now.

For more context, see the corresponding issue from fish-shell: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/8895

[ThiefMaster]

Do the zsh devs actively monitor Pull Requests here? Might be better on their mailing list?

(I'd love to see this merged, this bug is so annoying...)

[larryv]

Do the zsh devs actively monitor Pull Requests here?

This repository is an unofficial mirror. While a few devs do check it on an irregular basis, the most active ones do not look at it at all.

Might be better on their mailing list?

This is always the better option.

[fugidev]

I have submitted the patch to the zsh-workers mailing list

[ThiefMaster]

Any news on this?

[larryv]

The discussion begins here. It seems to have stalled out.

[ThiefMaster]

Ah, any chance it could be revived? I'd leave a comment on it myself but since it's a mailing list I'm not subscribed to, I wouldn't even know how to properly reply to that thread w/o having one of its emails... (yay for great usability in mailing lists!)

[fugidev]

A (different) fix landed in https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/commit/5cb32ec5ab1eafdad62500e7e6bdada2c3205a59 so I'm closing this.