From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: 11348@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 20:40:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d36f3n5v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k40ov2r8.fsf@gnu.org>
> From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 11348@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:01:15 +0800
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> I installed the patch below, which seems to fix this specific problem
> >> (according to my testing under Wine ;-)
> >
> > I'm not sure why it worked for you, because it still doesn't for me.
>
> I also still see the bug, running under Wine.
>
> > IOW, the problem is that shell-parse-pcomplete-arguments removes the
> > backslash in "d:\gnu", because the last alternative in the above
> > regexp treats backslashes as escape characters, which on MS-DOS and
> > MS-Windows is true (for shell commands) only when the backslash
> > precedes a quote character (").
>
> How about something like the following? (Works for me on Wine with your
> test case, but I don't know if it breaks quoting.)
>
>
> === modified file 'lisp/shell.el'
> *** lisp/shell.el 2012-05-05 04:18:49 +0000
> --- lisp/shell.el 2012-05-07 07:59:33 +0000
> ***************
> *** 397,402 ****
> --- 397,408 ----
> ((null pcomplete-arg-quote-list)
> (goto-char (match-beginning 3)) "\\")
> ((= (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3)) "\\")
> + ;; On Windows, the backslash is an escape
> + ;; character only if it precedes a quote char.
> + ((and (memq system-type
> + '(ms-dos windows-nt darwin cygwin))
> + (not (equal (match-string 3) "\"")))
> + (concat "/" (match-string 3)))
> (t (match-string 3)))
> arg))
> ((match-beginning 2) ;Double quote.
>
This fixes the recipe in the original bug report (I get d:\gnu/), but
again fails in this variant:
M-! cd "d:\gnu TAB
It produces "d:\/gnu/ (with the leading quote) instead of "d:\gnu/
If I type
M-! cd "d:/gnu TAB
I get "d:/gnu/, as expected.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-26 11:09 bug#11348: 24.0.95; TAB-completion in shell-command produces d:\/foo on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 14:29 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-04 15:36 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 15:46 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-04 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-04 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-04 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 0:22 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-05 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-05 4:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-05 6:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-07 8:01 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-07 17:40 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-05-07 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-07 15:44 ` Drew Adams
2012-05-07 16:11 ` Chong Yidong
2012-05-08 0:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-08 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-09 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-05-09 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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