Re: Multiple Words on Bash Programmable Auto Completion

[Matthew Woehlke]

Chet Ramey 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.

How come you didn't mention '-o nospace' when I was trying to write a 
completion for directory names from a non-PWD reference point? ;-)

'-o nospace' just made that completion work MUCH better.

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