Re: Custom word completion, word splitting, bad behavior

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/7/18 5:09 PM, Nick Patavalis wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:56 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>> On 2/6/18 3:52 PM, Nick Patavalis wrote:
>>>
>>> In any case, splitting it like:
>>>
>>>   foo | --bar | =" | baz" aa bb
>>>
>>> (the last part a single word) does not look reasonable to me (even if
>>> it may be convenient in some occasions I cannot think of). It looks
>>> like a mix-up between the roles of " as a quoting character and as a
>>> word break character.
>>
>> That may, in fact, be unreasonable. I'll take a look.
>>
>> (It is not what I thought you were talking about as a problem: it seemed
>> to me that the `="' part was where you were objecting.)
>>
> 
> My worst problem is not the way '="' is split, but instead, how the rest
> of the line is not (baz" aa bb).

As it turns out, the problem is the way `="' is split.  If you want to
treat quoted strings the way readline does, you can't use `'' or `"' as
a word delimiter when splitting the line, regardless of whether or not
they're in rl_completer_word_break_chars ($COMP_WORDBREAKS).

I'll have a fix in the next devel branch push.

Chet

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