Proposed patch for bash (completion spec problem related)

[Chet Ramey]

> Possible patch for bash to fix the problem noticed by Jason Tishler in msg:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-02/msg00581.html
> 
> 
> --- subst.c.old	Mon Nov  5 07:19:50 2001
> +++ subst.c	Mon Feb 18 16:58:50 2002
> @@ -1339,7 +1339,7 @@
>  	break;
>  
>        i = te /* + member (string[te], d) */;
> -      while (member (string[i], d) && whitespace(string[i]))
> +      while (member (string[i], d)/* && whitespace(string[i])*/)
>  	i++;

The right fix is to replace the call to whitespace() with one to spctabnl().
There's another fix needed for skip_to_delim(), but my current sources look
sufficiently different from bash-2.05a (multibyte character support) that
I'm not going to release a patch.

Chet

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