Re: Feature Request: Add option to make completed values always become properly escaped

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On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 4:32 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> What does `properly quoted' mean here and how does it differ from the
> quoting you get when you force complete to treat the completions as
> filenames with `complete -o filenames'?

I realized that a "quote all ' option is not what I want since I need
to rely on nospace and manual adding of space when a single result is
valid.  Having "quote all" enabled backslash escapes the space as
well.  What I need more is an option that allows replacing the current
word including the quote (', ", or $') that begins it with the result
as is rather than appending the result to the quote.  Maybe a method
that can prevent space from being added on a specific completion
result can be added instead too.

I also tried using the filenames option (which I remembered using
before) but it adds a slash to the result when the result matches a
directory.  For example, "test" which refers to a task becomes
"test/".


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