Improve target-shell autocompletion for dirs with spaces#1485
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Improve target-shell autocompletion for dirs with spaces#1485JSCU-CNI wants to merge 3 commits intofox-it:mainfrom
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Is it possible to extend the existing autocompletion tests with this?
Co-authored-by: Erik Schamper <1254028+Schamper@users.noreply.github.com>
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This PR attempts to solve a long-standing annoyance with target-shell, the handling of directories with spaces in the shell autocomplete function. We attempt to solve this by escaping spaces with "\ ", as most real shells do too. This seems to work reasonably well.