I am writing my own completions for a program. I would like to be able to complete quoted words, maintaining the double or single quotes in the completion.
#compdef foo
_foo {
local strings
strings=(\
foo\
bar\
'spam eggs')
_arguments \
{-s,--string}'[Select a string]:STR:(\""${strings[@]}"\")\
&& return 0
}
_foo
what I'd expect:
foo -s <TAB>
"foo" "bar" "spam eggs"
what it get:
\"foo\" \"bar\" \"spam\ eggs\"
I ended up trying different combinations of nested quotes and escapes almost brainlessly but with no luck, as I was not able to find the relevant docs (really, zsh docs are "dense")
Thank you!