Hello,
I am trying to improve the bash_completions for mercurial. For a specific
command (hg add), I want to show only files eligible for addition as
completions. The command "hg status -nu" lists such files, so what I do is
this:
<snip>
local files="$("$hg" status -n$1 . 2>/dev/null)"
local IFS=$'\n'
COMPREPLY=([EMAIL PROTECTED]:-} $(compgen -W '$files' -- "$cur"))
<snap>
However, there are problems with filenames containing spaces. with the above
code, spaces are not escaped on the command line, i.e. a
$ hg add TE<tab>
leads to
$ hg add TEST FILE
I tried escaping the spaces in the first line above like this:
local files="$("$hg" status -n$1 . 2>/dev/null | sed 's/ /\\ /g')"
With this code in place, the results on the command line are OK, but not the
completion list that appears when hitting <tab> on an ambiguous prefix:
$ hg add T<tab><tab>
T1 TEST\ FILE
Notice the backslash that should not appear (at least it is not there for
completion for ls).
I have already tried the "-o filenames" option to compgen, with no success.
Is what I want at all possible with the current bash (I used GNU bash, version
3.2.25(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) from KUbuntu 7.10)? If not, can you fix
it (e.g. by improving the "-o filenames" option)?
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Jonas
