> It still freaks out when expanding files with meta-characters
> (double-quotes, single-quotes, parenthesis). It expands the file,
> inserting escapes for the meta-characters, to the point where the files
> are the same, but then when you hit tab again to see the alternatives (I
> use set vi-tabcomplete), it gets all confused and displays a scrambled
> filename with the first part duplicated. Can you do anything about that?

No idea - can you show me a concrete example?

> "ksh93" doesn't have a problem with the meta-characters, nor does it try
> to escape them. I think that's the way to go. If you need to specify a
> long file with meta-characters, you just have to place a single- or
> double- quote at the beginning of the filename.

Hmmm, I'll bounce some of this off Michael Rendell who's still the
current pdksh maintainer.  Sort of sucked that I had to go download a
vanila pdksk archive to confirm that.

--sjg