[Bug 261728] If sh became a usable interactive shell, then why can't it tab-autocomplete file.(mine).1.txt and file.(mine).2.txt?

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261728

Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Daniel Tameling <tamelingdaniel@gmail.com> ---
Created attachment 231647
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Add ')' and '}' to the word delimiters for the completion. They were missing.

I had a look at what is going on and this looks like a bug. The word delimiters
passed to libedit are L" \t\n\"\\'`@$><=;|&{(". This is missing ')' and '}'. So
when it is going backwards through
file.\(mine\).
it recognizes the ')' as a normal character, but the '\' is actually a word
delimiter and it then thinks that the ')' starts a new word. So when trying to
complete the expression it looks for files starting with ")." and if there is,
for example, a file ").test", one gets file.\(mine\\).test, which isn't the
right thing to do.
What it should do is recognize the ')' as a word delimiter, realize that the
'\' before that means that it's escaped and use the whole string for the
completion. So one has to add ')' and '}' to the word delimiters. The attached
patched fixed the issue in my experiments.

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