Cannot tab-complete quoted words

[postmodern]

Description

I am attempting to port some Ruby code that relies on how Readline handled quoted words and tab-completion. I noticed that Reline lacks a quoting_detection_proc hook. I also noticed while testing that it cannot tab-complete quoted words for some reason?

Example

require 'reline'

Reline.completion_proc = proc { |word,preposing| %w[foo] } # should always tab-complete to 'foo'
p Reline.readline('> ')

Test 1:

> bar f<TAB>foo
"bar foo"

Test 2:

bar "f<TAB>"f"
"bar \"f\""

Test 3:

bar "fo<TAB>"fo"
"bar \"fo\""

Terminal Emulator

• LANG=en_US.UTF-8
• TERM=xterm-256color

Version

• reline 0.3.1
• ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [x86_64-linux]

[OscarAkaElvis]

This could be very useful to migrate from readline (deprecated in ruby 3) to reline in some tools like evil-winrm, so thanks for asking this. If finally is implemented that could ease a lot our work to migrate to reline our auto complete feature. Thanks.