gdb: improve gdb_rl_find_completion_word for quoted words
The function gdb_rl_find_completion_word is very similar to the readline function _rl_find_completion_word, but was either an older version of that function, or was trimmed when copying to remove code which was considered unnecessary. We maintain this copy because the _rl_find_completion_word function is not part of the public readline API, and we need to replicate the functionality of that function as part of the 'complete' command. Within gdb_rl_find_completion_word when looking for the completion word, if we don't find a unclosed quoted string (which would become the completion word) then we scan backwards looking for a word break character. For example, given: (gdb) complete file /tmp/foo There is no unclosed quoted string so we end up scanning backwards from the end looking for a word break character. In this case the space after 'file' and before '/tmp/foo' is found, so '/tmp/foo' becomes the completion word. However, given this: (gdb) complete file /tmp/foo\" There is still no unclosed quoted string, however, when we can backwards the '"' (double quotes) are treated as a word break character, and so we end up using the empty string as the completion word. The readline function _rl_find_completion_word avoids this mistake by using the rl_char_is_quoted_p hook. This function will return true for the double quote character as it is preceded by a backslash. An earlier commit in this series supplied a rl_char_is_quoted_p function for the filename completion case, however, gdb_rl_find_completion_word doesn't call rl_char_is_quoted_p so this doesn't help for the 'complete' case. In this commit I've copied the code to call rl_char_is_quoted_p from _rl_find_completion_word into gdb_rl_find_completion_word. This half solves the problem. In the case: (gdb) complete file /tmp/foo\" We do now try to complete on the string '/tmp/foo\"', however, when we reach filename_completer we call back into readline to actually perform filename completion. However, at this point the WORD variable points to a string that still contains the backslash. The backslash isn't part of the actual filename, that's just an escape character. Our expectation is that readline will remove the backslash when looking for matching filenames. However, readline contains an optimisation to avoid unnecessary work trying to remove escape characters. The readline variable rl_completion_found_quote is set in the readline function gen_completion_matches before the generation of completion matches. This variable is set to true (non-zero) if there is (or might be) escape characters within the completion word. The function rl_filename_completion_function, which generates the filename matches, only removes escape characters when rl_completion_found_quote is true. When GDB generates completions through readline (e.g. tab completion) then rl_completion_found_quote is set correctly. But when we use the 'complete' command we don't pass through readline, and so gen_completion_matches is never called and rl_completion_found_quote is not set. In this case when we call rl_filename_completion_function readline doesn't remove the escapes from the completion word, and so in our case above, readline looks for completions of the exact filename '/tmp/foo\"', that is, the filename including the backslash. To work around this problem I've added a new flag to our function gdb_rl_find_completion_word which is set true when we find any quoting or escaping. This matches what readline does. Then in the 'complete' function we can set rl_completion_found_quote prior to generating completion matches. With this done the 'complete' command now works correctly when trying to complete filenames that contain escaped word break characters. The tests have been updated accordingly.
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