[IPython-dev] Re: tab completion w/ spaces in filename?

Fernando Perez Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu
Tue Jun 29 23:48:58 EDT 2004


Ville Vainio wrote:
> BTW, is tab completion supposed to work for files with spaces in their 
> name? Completing a spaced file leaves the spaces as such in the file 
> name (i.e. they are not escaped, quoted or anything), so that pressing 
> tab a second time gives the list of all files, i.e. it doesn't consider 
> what is already typed/completed. Adding backslashes manually to escape 
> the spaces doesn't help.

Fixed, I'll put it in CVS in a minute.

Thanks for the report.

Best,

f




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