[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #47340] wrong tab completion on folder names with spaces

[Hartmut]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #47340 (project octave):

Stop. Here is an idea how to better handle this:

Suppose you have a folder "my data" in your current directory, which itself
has a subfolder "test folder" in it. How about the following behavior:

* "cd my[tab]" leads to "cd 'my data'" ( or even better lead to "cd 'my
data'/" )
* afterwards the user can finish by pressing Enter (this was my original
usecase) and everything is fine
* OR the user can continue typing like this "cd 'my data'/tes[tab]" which
should then be auto completed to "cd 'my data'/'test folder'". This results
seems to be valid Octave syntax for a folder name as well. So pressing Enter
will now also suceeed.

In order to facility the above behavior (at least) two changes are necessary:
* The auto completion of folder names with spaces in the name, should be
closed with a quote sign. (original issue) Optionally we could still add the
trailing slash as well.
* Inputs like "cd 'my data'/tes[tab]" should be properly auto completed.

I hope I could make it clear how me idea is ment. I think it would make it
possible that both mentioned use cases work simultanously :)

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