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

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #47340 (project octave):

Hartmut, what you propose in comment #3 seems similar to what Philip showed
that Matlab does.

However, Octave's parser is a law unto itself.  In Octave the syntax


cd 'part 1'/'part 2'


is not interpreted as


cd 'part 1/part 2'


but instead as passing two arguments to cd.  The first is "part 1" and the
second is "/'part 2'" (including the single quotes as part of the argument).

I think that it would be easier to get readline to insert and remove the
quotes around the / as it goes.

I may get around to this once the multi-level directory completion patch at
bug #44095 is applied, and perhaps after bug #46458.

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