Re: [PATCH v3/RFC 1/2] Introduce functions from bash-completion project.
On 10-10-30 04:42 PM, Peter van der Does wrote:
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> The completion script does not work as expected under Bash 4.
> Bash: 3
> output:
> $ git log --pretty=<tab><tab>
> email full medium raw
> format: fuller oneline short
>
> Bash: 4
> output:
> $ git log --pretty=<tab><tab>
> .bash_logout .local/
> .bash_profile Music/
> --More--
>
> With Bash 4 the way word breaking is done in the programmable completion
> code has changed. The documentation at the bash project is not very
> clear what was changed, the only reference found is in the NEWS section:
>
> i. The programmable completion code now uses the same set of characters
> as readline when breaking the command line into a list of words.
>
> The word breaking problem occurs with certain characters, like double
> colon and equal sign.
Nit: "double colon" is "::" -- the name of the character is just "colon".
M.