Re: compgen -W doesn't split wordlist containing single quotes

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/17/18 12:16 AM, Clark Wang wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:00 AM, <marcelpaulo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> It works correctly if the single quote is itself quoted. Our test wordlist
>> would then be: "foo\'bar aaa bbb"
>>
>> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- a
>> aaa
>> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- b
>> bbb
>> paulo@monk:~/tmp$ compgen -W "foo\'bar aaa bbb" -- f
>> foo'bar
>>
> 
> This seems to work but it does not. For example in the command line
> 
>   # some-cmd f<TAB>
> 
> will become
> 
>   # some-cmd foo'bar
> 
> then you press ENTER and it'll still wait for another ' char.

You haven't told complete that you want the words to be quoted. If you
install the completion using the `-o filenames' option, you will get
filename-like quoting.

Readline doesn't provide a way to quote completion matches unless you
say they're filenames. Maybe it should, but that is the way things are.

Chet

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