REPL: new backslash escape hack for Windows Pkg completions

Author: xal-0

stdlib/REPL/src/REPLCompletions.jl

@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ function complete_path(path::AbstractString;
                        cmd_escape=false,
                        string_escape=false,
                        contract_user=false)
+    # println("\ncomplete path: $path")
+    # println("shell: $shell_escape, cmd: $cmd_escape, string: $string_escape")
     @assert !(shell_escape && string_escape)
     if Base.Sys.isunix() && occursin(r"^~(?:/|$)", path)
         # if the path is just "~", don't consider the expanded username as a prefix
@@ -492,10 +494,8 @@ function complete_path(path::AbstractString,
     end
     startpos = pos - lastindex(prefix) + 1
     Sys.iswindows() && map!(paths, paths) do c::PathCompletion
-        # emulation for unnecessarily complicated return value, since / is a
-        # perfectly acceptable path character which does not require quoting
-        # but is required by Pkg's awkward parser handling
-        return endswith(c.path, "/") ? PathCompletion(chop(c.path) * "\\\\") : c
+        # HACK: Pkg requires escaped backslashes
+        return PathCompletion(replace(c.path, "\\" => "\\\\"))
     end
     return paths, startpos:pos, success
 end