On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Bernd Eggink wrote:
> Chet Ramey schrieb:
> > > Hm, compgen appears to behave strange if words contain whitespace.
> >
> > Well, it splits the argument to -W on $IFS as documented. What other
> > strange behavior do you see?
>
> For example, this:
>
> function _aha
> {
> local list="a b:c d:e f"
> COMPREPLY=($(IFS=: compgen -W "$list"))
That expands to:
COMPREPLY=( a b c d e f )
> }
>
> complete -F _aha aha
>
> Typing aha <Tab> cycles through 6 items a, b, c, d, e, f, whereas I would
> expect 3 items 'a b', 'c d', 'e f'. It looks like compgen splits the argument
> to -W on $IFS _and_ whitespace. Or am I missing something?
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