Re: possible bug in autocompletion

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 
> > I have no idea if that internal to bash's filename completion, or if
> > there is some easy facility offered to programmable completions to do
> > the same thing.  I don't think this is a high priority, but it would be
> > nice to handle it. And moreover, I am really wondering if we are missing
> > some solution that bash is providing to help us with the quoting issues.
> > Surely we are not the first completion script to come up against this.
> 
> I found a much easier solution:
> 
> -       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}"))
> +       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$(quote "$1")"
> -- "${3-$cur}"))

> But what about the people that don't have bash-completion?
> 
> BTW:
> 
> quote()
> {
>     local quoted=${1//\'/\'\\\'\'}
>     printf "'%s'" "$quoted"
> }