Re: Tab auto-completion removes quotes from variables even when it shouldn't

[Chet Ramey]

On 6/25/21 10:53 AM, Pedro Gimeno wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
>
> Tested also in the last version from this unofficial mirror: 
> https://github.com/bminor/bash so I guess it's still a problem.
>
> Tab auto-completion removes quotes from variables even when it shouldn't.

Thanks for the report. This is a known issue for which I haven't decided on
an acceptable solution. The interface between readline and the calling
application (in this case, bash) makes it kind of clumsy.

You can work around it by setting the `direxpand' shell option, which has
the effect of expanding variables in the directory name and the side effect
of quoting them.

Chet


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