* Federico G. Schwindt <fg...@lodoss.net> [110315 17:38]:
> > I think I'm slightly confused as to you'd like fixed - do you mean that
> > one shouldn't need to escape a '[' if it's the first character? (note
> > that /bin/[ exists). Else, can you clarify a bit more? Thanks!
>
> correct, shouldn't need to escape a '[' if it's teh first character.
> i do know of [, but command and file completion are two different things.
> see
> bash too.
I don't want to be defensive, but hey, how is bash relevant? [ is treated as
a globbing character, you know. Is it first character or not, ksh doesn't care,
it just tries to expand it.
Oh well, you can try expanding it and then - if it failed - escape it and
try again, like in the patch below. Bear in mind I didn't give it much
thought, because I have a feeling it's not a good idea.
diff --git a/edit.c b/edit.c
index 4cff25b..eee8a5d 100644
--- a/edit.c
+++ b/edit.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#include <libgen.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
+#define ESCAPEDCHARS "\"#$&'()*;<=>?[\\`{|}"
static void x_sigwinch(int);
static volatile sig_atomic_t got_sigwinch;
@@ -348,6 +349,7 @@ x_file_glob(int flags, const char *str, int slen, char
***wordsp)
{
char *toglob;
char **words;
+ char *estr;
int nwords, i, idx, escaping;
XPtrV w;
struct source *s, *sold;
@@ -416,6 +418,21 @@ x_file_glob(int flags, const char *str, int slen, char
***wordsp)
}
afree(toglob, ATEMP);
+ /* Globbing failed, do escaping and try again. */
+ if (!nwords && !words) {
+ estr = alloc(2 * slen + 1, ATEMP);
+ idx = 0;
+ for(i = 0; i < slen; i++) {
+ if (strchr(ESCAPEDCHARS, str[i]))
+ estr[idx++] = '\\';
+ estr[idx++] = str[i];
+ }
+ estr[idx] = '\0';
+ nwords = x_file_glob(flags, estr, idx, wordsp);
+ afree(estr, ATEMP);
+ return nwords;
+ }
+
if (nwords) {
*wordsp = words;
} else if (words) {
@@ -826,7 +843,7 @@ x_escape(const char *s, size_t len, int (*putbuf_func)
(const char *, size_t))
int rval = 0;
for (add = 0, wlen = len; wlen - add > 0; add++) {
- if (strchr("\"#$&'()*;<=>?[\\`{|}", s[add]) ||
+ if (strchr(ESCAPEDCHARS, s[add]) ||
strchr(ifs, s[add])) {
if (putbuf_func(s, add) != 0) {
rval = -1;
--
Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru
