On 7/15/15 11:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> OK, after a bit more testing, there is certainly something interesting
> here that I don't quite understand, but which Chet probably will.
>
> I have two files: 'bad' and $'bad\nfile'
>
> I type:
>
> $ cat bad
>
> and press Tab twice. (The first does nothing visible.) This gives me
> two completion choices:
>
> bad bad^Jfile
>
> If I press Ctrl-V Ctrl-J, the cursor moves to the next line. At this
> point, further Tabbing (with or without characters) acts like a new
> completion rather than a continuation of the previous completion, as
> this bug report indicated.
I answered this in another message; it's not a bug.
>
> But if instead I type:
>
> $ cat 'bad
>
> and then press Tab twice, I get the same completion choices:
>
> bad bad^Jfile
>
> Then if I press Ctrl-V Ctrl-J Tab, I end up with:
>
> $ cat 'bad
> file'
>
> So, quoting the filename works around the bug, but readline isn't quite
> clever enough to do that on its own yet.
Readline understands quoted strings using single and double quotes, and
will allow you to quote the newline with a backslash. But when you
present readline with unquoted word separators, it will use them to
separate words.
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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
