Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

[Daniel Fleischman]

Thank you, that's exactly what I wanted.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 09:16, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> > Description:
> >     I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it has to do with
> programmable
> > auto completion. Whenever the options have multiple words I don't get
> what I
> > want.
>
> You can get filename-like quoting by specifying that readline should treat
> the matches returned by the completion function as filenames, using the
> `-o filenames' option to complete: complete -o filenames -F f lala.
>
> Chet
>
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>
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