On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:08:29AM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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-$cur}"))
Oh, nice. :)
> But what about the people that don't have bash-completion?
>
> BTW:
>
> quote()
> {
> local quoted=${1//\'/\'\\\'\'}
> printf "'%s'" "$quoted"
> }
That is short and obvious enough that we could probably just
cut-and-paste it into our script as _git_quote (and it is basically a
cleaner version of the thing that I posted).
-Peff
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