On 3/19/23 10:08 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
Completion state is not fully restored after invoking `compgen' within
a competition function.
Normally, if a compspec does not specifically include one of the
options that triggers filename completion, the generated completions
are not treated as filenames:
$ complete -W '/tmp /var' cmd
$ cmd /[TAB]
/tmp /var
However, if a completion function is invoked, and that function
happens to call `compgen' with one of the options that triggers
filename completion, the generated completions _are_ treated as
filenames (i.e. get quoted, have `/' appended to directories, etc.)
OK, say you did in fact run compgen in the foreground -- very unusual
because it's awkward to capture the possible completions that way -- to
generate completions. Why wouldn't you want them treated the way compgen
generated them?
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
