Re: NcFTP Feature Request for "getline" (fwd)

[Alan Dobkin <Alan at ADobkin dot Net>]

Charles,

Thanks for taking the time to respond to this issue, 
but it seems you may have missed my original message 
(which was attached to the one you responded to and 
is also included below).  I am aware that quotes can 
be used as a workaround to this problem - but IMO, 
The Right Thing To Do is to have the quotes inserted 
automatically.  This is also not a matter of Unix vs. 
Windows behavior, as both Unix and Windows properly 
deal with spaces in file names during tab completion.

In Windows 2000 (with tab completion enabled in cmd):

C:\>cd prog<TAB> --> 
C:\>cd "Program Files"

In bash (using Cygwin or RedHat Linux):

$ cd /cygdrive/C/Prog<TAB> --> 
$ cd /cygdrive/C/Program\ Files/

Now, regarding the new bug I was reporting specifically 
in the Cygwin version of NcFTP, you can reproduce it by 
creating a bookmark list containing *only* the two I 
mentioned, i.e. "RedHat Linux" and "RedHat Updates", or 
any other bookmarks that begin with the same word.  The 
reason your scenario didn't duplicate the bug is because 
you had a third bookmark that started differently.

Incidentally, backslash can't be used to escape the space 
either as it works in bash.  It has to be enclosed in quotes.

Using spaces in bookmarks may be silly, but I'm sure I'm 
not the first person to try it and expect it to work, 
since spaces are valid characters in most filesystems as 
file names and are permitted as bookmark names in NcFTP.

Thanks,
Alan

--On Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:09 PM -0500 Charles Wilson
<cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:

> I can't reproduce this the way you see it.  OTOH, I understand 
> your problem, and the short answer is:  use " character.
> 
> ncftp> open "R<tab> U<tab>
> 
> should do what you want.
> 
> On cygwin, using rxvt (TERM=rxvt) or dosbox (TERM=cygwin), I get:
> 
> ncftp> open <TAB>
> neuro    rcn
> ncftp> open
> 
> two tabs, and I get
> 
> ncftp> open <TAB> <TAB>
> neuro    rcn
> ncftp> open  (e.g. the second tab is interpreted here)
> neuro    rcn
> ncftp> open
> 
> likewise, when I do something as (IMO) silly as having multi-word
> bookmark names, in both environments I get
> 
> ncftp> open <TAB>
> neuro one  neuro two  rcn  (lists all three bkmks)
> ncftp> open n<TAB>
> neuro one  neuro two       (lists two bookmarks, autocompletes 'euro '
> ncftp> open neuro<TAB>
> neuro one  neuro two  rcn  (thinks that 'open neuro ' is two words, and
>                              tries to autocomplete an entirely new
>                              word -- so it re-lists all three bkmks)
> 
> If I try to help, by typing the 'o' for 'neuro one', it doesn't help --
> it tries to match on words beginning with 'o' and since I have no bkmks
> that begin with 'o' -- no match.
> 
> ncftp> open neuro o<TAB>
> ncftp> open neuro o
> 
> This is The Right Thing To Do, IMO.  Very unixy.  Now, if I do THIS:
> 
> ncftp> open "neuro <TAB>
> neuro one    neuro two
> 
> Then, I help by adding an 'o':
> 
> ncftp> open "neuro o<TAB>  (it autocompletes!  'ne"')
> 
> ncftp> open "neuro one"
> 
> Again, The Right Thing To Do.  Remember, cygwin ain't windows.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> Alan Dobkin wrote:
> 
>> I am resending the attached request as it still applies 
>> to NcFTP 3.1.3.  I am copying the Cygwin list, because 
>> I've noticed a related bug in the current Cygwin version.
>> 
>> Consider an example with only the following two bookmarks:
>> 
>> RedHat Linux   --> FTP.RedHat.Com
>> RedHat Updates --> Updates.RedHat.Com
>> 
>> With the non-Cygwin Win32 version, tab completion 
>> displays the bookmark list with only the second words:
>> 
>> ncftp> open <TAB><TAB>
>>     Linux    Updates
>> 
>> However, with the Cygwin version, tab completion repeats 
>> the first word each time without displaying the list:
>> 
>> ncftp> open <TAB>
>> ncftp> open RedHat <TAB>
>> ncftp> open RedHat RedHat <TAB>
>> ncftp> open RedHat RedHat RedHat <TAB>
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I am not able to contribute any patches 
>> myself, but hopefully this will not be a difficult fix 
>> for someone who is already familiar with the source code.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan
>> 
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Subject:
>> 
>> NcFTP Feature Request for "getline"
>> From:
>> 
>> Alan Dobkin <Alan@ADobkin.Net>
>> Date:
>> 
>> Sun, 04 Nov 2001 20:14:09 -0500
>> To:
>> 
>> NcFTP <NcFTP@NcFTP.Com>
>> 
>> 
>> Please consider the following enhancement to "getline" tab 
>> completion.  When using the open command with tab to list 
>> the matching bookmarks, getline should enclose the string 
>> in quotes if it contains spaces.  Consider this example:
>> 
>> ncftp> open <TAB>RedHat Linux
>> Resolving RedHat...
>> 
>> Unknown host "RedHat".
>> ncftp> open "RedHat Linux" (quotes inserted manually)
>> Resolving FTP.RedHat.Com...
>> Connecting to 63.240.14.63...
>> 
>> Red Hat FTP server ready. All transfers are logged.
>> Logging in...
>> 
>> Login successful. Have fun.
>> 
>> Automatically inserting quotes like this appears to be 
>> standard behavior in most UNIX shells and Windows 2000.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan

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