[Bash-completion-devel] handling values with spaces

[Igor Murzov]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:50:36 +0200
Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ?

I think that _filedir() does something similar to what you
want to do. It uses _quote_readline_by_ref() to quote strings.


-- Igor