On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 1:18 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 3/17/18 12:16 AM, Clark Wang wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:00 AM, <marcelpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > >> It works correctly if the single quote is itself quoted. Our test > wordlist > >> would then be: "foo\'bar aaa bbb" > >> > >> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- a > >> aaa > >> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- b > >> bbb > >> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- f > >> foo'bar > >> > > > > This seems to work but it does not. For example in the command line > > > > # some-cmd f<TAB> > > > > will become > > > > # some-cmd foo'bar > > > > then you press ENTER and it'll still wait for another ' char. > > You haven't told complete that you want the words to be quoted. If you > install the completion using the `-o filenames' option, you will get > filename-like quoting. > `-o filenames' would append `/' to a word if the word is coincidentally a real existing dir name. How can I ask it not to append the `/'? -clark > > Readline doesn't provide a way to quote completion matches unless you > say they're filenames. Maybe it should, but that is the way things are. >
