tag 543982 +patch thanks Here's a patch which appears to fix the issue for me, running Bash 4.0-5ubuntu2. I haven't tested it with older versions of Bash though. Please use it as you wish, and make further changes if necessary.
-- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin
From cdd09c0420437f4cfec3ed4d62cf2fcc4cdda3f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:05:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Remove all quote_readline usages Tab competion with spaces is broken when using quote_readline in _filedir and _filedir_xspec. This patch removes all instances of its usage. --- bash_completion | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion index 3cacea7..2e8f71c 100644 --- a/bash_completion +++ b/bash_completion @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ _filedir() # bash-3.1. See also: # http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-b...@gnu.org/msg01667.html toks=( ${to...@]-} $( - compgen -d -- "$(quote_readline "$cur")" | { + compgen -d -- "$cur" | { while read -r tmp; do echo $tmp done @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ _filedir() if [[ "$1" != -d ]]; then xspec=${1:+"!*.$1"} toks=( ${to...@]-} $( - compgen -f -X "$xspec" -- "$(quote_readline "$cur")" | { + compgen -f -X "$xspec" -- "$cur" | { while read -r tmp; do [ -n $tmp ] && echo $tmp done @@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ _filedir_xspec() local tmp toks=( ${to...@]-} $( - compgen -d -- "$(quote_readline "$cur")" | { + compgen -d -- "$cur" | { while read -r tmp; do # see long TODO comment in _filedir() --David echo $tmp @@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ _filedir_xspec() )) toks=( ${to...@]-} $( - eval compgen -f -X "$xspec" -- "\$(quote_readline "\$cur")" | { + eval compgen -f -X "$xspec" -- "\$cur" | { while read -r tmp; do [ -n $tmp ] && echo $tmp done -- 1.6.3.3
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