Re: Completion and double quotes

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:53:52 +0200
Joke de Buhr <joke@seiken.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2010 11:31:26 Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:30:08 +0200
> > 
> > Joke de Buhr <joke@seiken.de> wrote:
> > > Currently my completion is somehow configured to transform double
> > > quoted paths to backslash escaped paths.
> > > 
> > > Example:
> > >   ls /path/to/"file with"<TAB> -> /path/to/file\ with\ spaces
> > > 
> > > I would like the completion not to touch the quotation.
> > 
> > It's not configurable, but you can put the double quote right at
> > the start of the filename and it probably does what you want.
> > 
> 
> If put the double quote right at the start is there any way to get
> the completion to work paths beginning with "~" ?

Interesting case, and I think you're stuck there.  Unless someone can see
an ingenious solution, the only way would be to expand the ~ first or use
variables.  You could semi-automate converting the ~ to something starting
"/home/blah with some shell function magic, but without grungy changes deep
in the completion code I think that's as good as it's going to get.

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