Re: possible bug in autocompletion

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2012, 17:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s2X5-BUyLtkTqGMa6w5K6uT25YLEp+Q2TdVR_qCObOpeA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120717121232.GA32571@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> --- 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}"))

Cheers.

-- 
Felipe Contreras