From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:58:19 GMT
Subject: Re: possible bug in autocompletion
Message-ID: <7vipb9hp38.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s2X5-BUyLtkTqGMa6w5K6uT25YLEp+Q2TdVR_qCObOpeA@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
>> --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
>> @@ -261,7 +261,12 @@ __gitcomp ()
>>  __gitcomp_nl ()
>>  {
>>         local IFS=$'\n'
>> -       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}"))
>> +       local words=$1
>> +       words=${words//\\/\\\\}
>> +       words=${words//\$/\\\$}
>> +       words=${words//\'/\\\'}
>> +       words=${words//\"/\\\"}
>> +       COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}"))
>>  }
>
> What about something like this?
>
> local words
> printf -v words "%q" "$w"
> COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}"))

Both "printf -v" and "%q" are brilliant ;-)