Re: Resolving quoted COMP_CWORD on bash-4

[Chet Ramey]

> Bash Version: 4.0
> Patch Level: 28
> Release Status: release
> 
> On bash-4, when completing:
> 
>     $ a 'b c
> 
> The COMP_CWORD variables contain:
> 
>     COMP_CWORD: 3
>     COMP_CWORDS:
>     0: a
>     1: '
>     2: b
>     3: c
> 
> Whereas on bash-3 they contained:
> 
>     COMP_CWORD: 1
>     COMP_CWORDS:
>     0: a
>     1: 'b c

Try this quick-and-dirty patch and tell me if it works.  If it does, I'll
probably release something very similar as a patch to bash-4.0.  Bash-4.1
will do it a different way.

Chet

*** ../bash-4.0-patched/pcomplete.c     2009-03-08 21:24:31.000000000 -0400
--- pcomplete.c 2009-09-26 16:30:16.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 1176,1186 ****
    WORD_LIST *ret;
    char *delims;
  
! #if 0
!   delims = "()<>;&| \t\n";    /* shell metacharacters break words */
! #else
!   delims = rl_completer_word_break_characters;
! #endif
    ret = split_at_delims (line, llen, delims, sentinel, nwp, cwp);
    return (ret);
  }
--- 1176,1188 ----
    WORD_LIST *ret;
    char *delims;
+   int i, j;
  
!   delims = xmalloc (strlen (rl_completer_word_break_characters) + 1);
!   for (i = j = 0; rl_completer_word_break_characters[i]; i++)
!     if (rl_completer_word_break_characters[i] != '\'' && 
rl_completer_word_break_characters[i] != '"')
!       delims[j++] = rl_completer_word_break_characters[i];
!   delims[j] = '\0';
    ret = split_at_delims (line, llen, delims, sentinel, nwp, cwp);
+   free (delims);
    return (ret);
  }

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