[Bash-completion-devel] handling values with spaces

[Guillaume Rousse]

My two latest completions handle list of values containing spaces: 
camera models for gphoto2, wifi networks essid for nmcli. I figured out 
how to redefine IFS for ensuring they are correctly suggested as 
possible completions, but this result in invalid command lines, such as:
gphoto2 --camera Wi<TAB> ->
gphoto2 --camera Wild Planet Digital Spy Camera 70137

If I manually insert quotes, everything is OK:
gphoto2 --camera "Wi<TAB> ->
gphoto2 --camera "Wild Planet Digital Spy Camera 70137"

I'd like to automatically either quote such values, or espace spaces 
through them, so as to produces valid command lines, such as:
gphoto2 --camera "Wild Planet Digital Spy Camera 70137"
gphoto2 --camera Wild\ Planet\ Digital\ Spy\ Camera\ 70137

Is there any way to achieve this ?
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