Re: possible bug in autocompletion

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 19, 2012, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMP44s33b7uNg6G3m3wHEACa_wYwf_5==h64CHw2b86-rJd5VQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120919195518.GA22310@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> 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"
}

-- 
Felipe Contreras