Re: Coreutils-like File Completion

[Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>]

On 10/04/2017 08:24 PM, Noam Barnea wrote:
> Since coreutils-8.24 (as far as I can tell from the Coreutils git), ls
> escaped filenames with single quotes instead of backslashes. On zsh (zsh
> 5.4.2 stable, freshly installed) escaped filenames in filename completion
> (typing cd then pressing Tab) are still escaped with backslashes. I think
> the Coreutils standard should be followed as it is more shell-friendly and
> promotes better, more efficient commandline practices.
> 

Quoting, what i am assuming that you are referring to, spaces, with single quotes
or backslashes results in the space not being treated syntactically in all
bourne-like shells. one isn't more "shell-friendly" than the other.

On another note, if you type an ' before pressing tab, zsh will still complete the filename
and add the closing ' if an file is selected, the closing ' won't be added if the selected item
is an directory (since you may attempt to do further completion).