[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #42291] tab completion gives incorrect filenames when filename contains operators

[Frederick Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #42291 (project octave):

Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot of sense. I still think that this
behavior is undesirable though. 

As a user, when I press tab, I think I am asking the program "complete this
with the longest file/folder name prefix you can" In this case though (if I
understand correctly) the completion it offers (mlclass-ex) is not a valid
prefix at all, but rather the difference of two strings.

As for a fix, how about using the quote method that you mention. Whenever the
autocomplete adds a piece of filename which includes an operator it could add
an opening quote too (if not already present). So we'd have

>cd ml<tab>
>cd 'mlclass-ex
>cd 'mlclass-ex1<tab>
>cd 'mlclass-ex1/'

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