[Bug gdb/26180] New: tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[Bug gdb/26180] New: tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[noelgrandin at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26180

            Bug ID: 26180
           Summary: tab completion needs whitespace escaping
           Product: gdb
           Version: 9.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: gdb
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: noelgrandin at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

create a file with a space in it's name

e.g. touch 'test file'

run gdb

type

r
<space>
t
<tab>

you will end up a screen something like

gdb> r test file

which doesn't work :-)

it would be better if gdb could wrap that file name in quotes, like this

gdb> r 'test file'

or escape it like this

gdb> r test\ file

thanks

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[Bug cli/26180] tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[noelgrandin at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26180

Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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          Component|gdb                         |cli

--- Comment #1 from Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail dot com> ---
This is gdb 9.1-5 on Fedora Linux

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[Bug cli/26180] tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26180

Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
   Last reconfirmed|                            |2020-07-04
                 CC|                            |tromey at sourceware dot org

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[Bug cli/26180] tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[palves at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26180

Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |palves at redhat dot com

--- Comment #2 from Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com> ---
I actually have a branch that implements that.

https://github.com/palves/gdb/commits/palves/filename-options

I ran into this while implementing support for filename options in the
gdb::option framework, for "add-inferior -exec FILENAME".

With that, this works:

 (gdb) shell touch a\ b
 (gdb) run a\ [TAB]
 (gdb) run a\ b

As well as:

 (gdb) add-inferior -exec a\ [TAB]
 (gdb) add-inferior -exec a\ b

The branch also makes GDB's single quoting behaves like Bash's.  Currently
single and double quoting behave the same in GDB.

I need to find time to clean that up and submit it upstream.

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[Bug cli/26180] tab completion needs whitespace escaping

[noelgrandin at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26180

--- Comment #3 from Noel Grandin <noelgrandin at gmail dot com> ---
thanks to djdelorie for helping me debug that

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