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[BUGZILLA #14452] spaces muck up tab completion #4042

Open MichaelChirico opened 4 years ago

MichaelChirico commented 4 years ago

If you're entering a file-name with spaces (e.g. "New folder"), tab completion mucks up. So, if you have a directory in your home called "New folder":

"New goes to "New folder but then you can't tab any further (for instance you can't use tabbing to fill in the contents of the folder)

"New gives you possibilities from your home directory to complete with.

If you have a file called follow.js in your home directory, then "New fol may well complete to "New follow.js even if this directory doesn't exist.

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MichaelChirico commented 4 years ago

This should now be fixed for R's internal file completion, which is not active by default on Linux but can be activated by rc.settings(files = TRUE). I don't know of a solution when using readline's filename completion (short of removing space as a word-breaker, but that will cause other problems).

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