i vote for script style api'ing readline On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 20:38 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 6/25/21 10:53 AM, Pedro Gimeno wrote: > > Bash Version: 4.4 > > Patch Level: 12 > > Release Status: release > > > > Tested also in the last version from this unofficial mirror: > > https://github.com/bminor/bash so I guess it's still a problem. > > > > Tab auto-completion removes quotes from variables even when it shouldn't. > > Thanks for the report. This is a known issue for which I haven't decided on > an acceptable solution. The interface between readline and the calling > application (in this case, bash) makes it kind of clumsy. > > You can work around it by setting the `direxpand' shell option, which has > the effect of expanding variables in the directory name and the side effect > of quoting them. > > Chet > > > -- > ``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/ > >