Re: [PATCH] Save more readline state when running compgen

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/19/23 10:08 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> Completion state is not fully restored after invoking `compgen' within
> a competition function.
>
> Normally, if a compspec does not specifically include one of the
> options that triggers filename completion, the generated completions
> are not treated as filenames:
>
> $ complete -W '/tmp /var' cmd
> $ cmd /[TAB]
> /tmp /var
>
> However, if a completion function is invoked, and that function
> happens to call `compgen' with one of the options that triggers
> filename completion, the generated completions _are_ treated as
> filenames (i.e. get quoted, have `/' appended to directories, etc.)

OK, say you did in fact run compgen in the foreground -- very unusual
because it's awkward to capture the possible completions that way -- to
generate completions. Why wouldn't you want them treated the way compgen
generated them?

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