Bash completion for Maven escapes colon

Question

I added bash completion for Maven following the docs:

http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-bash-m2-completion.html

Everything works well except for goal

Answer 1

From Bash FAQ E13.

Just after the complete command in the script you linked to, issue this command to remove the colon from the list of completion word break characters:

COMP_WORDBREAKS=${COMP_WORDBREAKS//:}