On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:08:09PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > --- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash > > +++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash > > @@ -261,7 +261,12 @@ __gitcomp () > > __gitcomp_nl () > > { > > local IFS=$'\n' > > - COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$1" -- "${3-$cur}")) > > + local words=$1 > > + words=${words//\\/\\\\} > > + words=${words//\$/\\\$} > > + words=${words//\'/\\\'} > > + words=${words//\"/\\\"} > > + COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}")) > > } > > What about something like this? > > local words > printf -v words "%q" "$w" > COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "${2-}" -S "${4- }" -W "$words" -- "${3-$cur}")) Thanks, I didn't know about bash's internal printf magic. That is a much more elegant solution. Care to wrap it up in a patch? -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html