[PATCH bash ordered autocomplete] Order the autocompletion in bash

[J Rt]

No wories :) .

I guess that putting local on IFS everywhere may solve the problem,
but I had been playing a bit around without managing to get it to
work. Guess I was missing an IFS somewhere.


On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 3:49 PM Reed Wade <reedwade at misterbanal.net> wrote:
>
> Hello back !
>
> Sorry for big delay, Migadu got problems with imap access cause of
> recent events.
>
> > - the version I sent last time works.
>
> cool !
>
> > - the version with the local var taken away and the "" protection works:
>
> cool !
>
> > _append_to_compreply () {
> >     local IFS=" "
> >     for word in "$(_sort_entries_string "$1")"; do
> >         COMPREPLY+=($word)
> >     done
> > }
> >
> > - this does not work (with uncommented IFS it works as shown on the
> > previous point), so I think the IFS var is needed. :
> >
> > bla bla bla
>
> Aha yup. I just discovered some days ago bash actualy use something
> called "dynamic scopes". In short, if a var is define outside of the
> scope, bash update this variable value. Except if "local" is used ofc.
>
> Is it possible to add "local IFS" where needed ? This will make the
> _append_to_compreply IFS useless right ?