417921 – app-editors/vim - bash completion fails with paths containing spaces

Bug 417921 - app-editors/vim - bash completion fails with paths containing spaces

Summary: app-editors/vim - bash completion fails with paths containing spaces

Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Vim Maintainers

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Blocks:	bashcomp-spacepath
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Reported:	2012-05-28 06:57 UTC by poletti.marco
Modified:	2016-10-14 10:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description poletti.marco 2012-05-28 06:57:20 UTC

The bash completion installed by app-editors/vim doesn't work for files/directories with spaces.

See Bug 417717 for more details.

Comment 1 Jonas Stein gentoo-dev

2016-10-14 10:55:46 UTC

:!mkdir /tmp/test\ test
:! ls /tmp/te TAB 
completes in 

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Nov  1 2015 01:07:39)
Included patches: 1-769
Modified by Gentoo-7.4.769

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