[kwlug-disc] Bash Autocompletion (Nov 2022)

[John Steel]

The only examples I've found so far escape the space instead of adding quotes. That's probably a good way to handle it. It seems that's what git does for autocompleting `git add filename\ with\ spaces`

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022, at 4:03 AM, Ronald Barnes wrote:
> peter_melse at gto.net wrote on 2022-11-15 06:07:
> 
> > some examples of varying complexity in a github repo would be cool!
> 
> I've got an example with 12 lines of code that implements support for 
> spaces in completion options.
> 
> There are 20 lines of comments, so it ought to be fairly easy to understand.
> 
> 
> See space_chars branch at:
> 
> > https://github.com/RonaldBarnes/bash_completion
> 
> 
> 
> rb
> 
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