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szermatt / emacs-bash-completion

Add programmable bash completion to Emacs shell-mode
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Further customization of bash-completion-nospace #36

Closed nverno closed 4 years ago

nverno commented 5 years ago

Hi, How would you feel about bash-completion-nospace have an additional option to allow for only adding a space when not completing in strings?

For example, a common case arises when entering a quoted path with environment variables, eg. "$HOM", and bash wants to add a space here which I think in most cases is unwanted.

I was thinking about adding a presumably minor modification to allow for an additional level of customization to disable the trailing space only in quoted (double/single) strings. Any interest?

szermatt commented 5 years ago

Hi!

I would like the behavior to be fully consistent with bash and keep the number of elisp-level customizations to a minimum. The completion itself is already highly configurable, through bash completion.

What is bash behavior in that case? Is it consistent with emacs-bash-completion's? Is it possible to configure bash to behave the way you want, but not emacs-bash-completion?