Maybe. The motivation may have been lost to history. bash added `:` to the list of completion word break characters with bash 2.0 [1][2]. Bash 2.0 was released

Maybe. The motivation may have been lost to history. bash added `:` to the list of completion word break characters with bash 2.0 [1][2]. Bash 2.0 was released in 1996. NTFS-3G started in 2006 but it was "forked from the Linux-NTFS", and I can't find any history for this project. NTFS itself was released in 1993. HFS+ seems to have been released in 1998, so it can't be the reason. But even regular HFS had resource forks and it was released in 1985. No idea where to look in ksh's source. [1]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee65b8f368e9653e1380b#diff-b8fb328cf74196c51b622571b2c765c857d4c5e766b0ce4b550f77280892e64eL239 https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6... [2]: https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee65b8f368e9653e1380b#diff-b8fb328cf74196c51b622571b2c765c857d4c5e766b0ce4b550f77280892e64eR129 https://github.com/bminor/bash/commit/ccc6cda312fea9f0468ee6...