Re: compadd -qS' ' should escape the space

["Nikolai Weibull" <now@xxxxxxxx>]

On 5/7/07, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sort of surprised no one responded to this.  (Or did they and gmail
> has spam-filtered it for me again?)

Nah, it's probably the fact that my question/suggestion wasn't very
well-formulated.

> On May 3,  6:11pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> } Subject: compadd -qS' ' should escape the space
> }
> }   _describe -t color 'color' colors -qS' '
> }
> } I'd expect the space used as a suffix to be escaped.
>
> Er, no.  The suffix is supposed to be a separator between words; e.g.,
> in file completion, you want the space between the file names to be
> treated as IFS by the shell, so that you get one file name per word
> as the command arguments.
>
> You didn't provide enough context to know what you're really trying
> to do and why you think the space should be escaped, so I have no
> suggestions for what you should be doing instead.

I'm trying to complete a set of three colors and attributes:

     compset -P '* '

     case ($words[CURRENT]) in
       (?*' '?*' '*)
         if [[ $words[CURRENT] == *(bold|dim|ul|blink|reverse)* ]]; then
           __git_colors
         else
           __git_color_attributes
         fi
         ;;
       (*)
         if [[ $words[CURRENT] == *(bold|dim|ul|blink|reverse)* ]]; then
           __git_colors -qS' '
         else
           _alternative \
             'colors:color:__git_colors -qS" "' \
             'attributes:attribute:__git_color_attributes -qS" "'
         fi
         ;;

The idea is that when completing in the following context:

% git config color.branch.local |

(where '|' is the cursor) you'll be able to enter three space-separated values:

% git config color.branch.local red\ |

and now we'll still be able to complete the two other components.  If
I manually prefix the word before completing with a double quote it
all works, but I was hoping that this could also work automatically.

Feel free to ask for more context ;-).

 nikolai