On 2/7/18 5:11 PM, Nick Patavalis wrote: > On the other hand, readline seems not to be able to complete something > like: > > ls /tm"p/foo/a b" > > (and I don't understand why), though this is true, regardless of > whether " is in COMP_WORDBREAKS or not. I *both* cases, the command line > is split (correctly) like: > > ls | /tm"p/foo/a b" > > so, probably, this is irrelevant with the discussion at hand.
Because, as I said in my original reply, readline understands how to complete inside quoted strings. If point is after the `b', for instance, and you hit TAB, readline scans back to the open quote and passes "p/foo/a b" to the completion function. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/