Fixes space completion in paths in the REPL like: cd C:\\Program\ Fil…

…es\\

base/REPLCompletions.jl

@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ function complete_path(path::AbstractString, pos)
             push!(matches, id ? file * (@windows? "\\\\" : "/") : file)
         end
     end
-    matches, (nextind(path, pos-sizeof(prefix))):pos, length(matches) > 0
+    matches = UTF8String[replace(s, r"\s", "\\ ") for s in matches]
+    return matches, nextind(path, pos - sizeof(prefix) - length(matchall(r" ", prefix))):pos, length(matches) > 0
 end
 
 function complete_methods(input::AbstractString)
@@ -148,7 +149,6 @@ end
 include("latex_symbols.jl")
 
 const non_identifier_chars = [" \t\n\r\"\\'`\$><=:;|&{}()[],+-*/?%^~"...]
-const non_filename_chars = [(" \t\n\r\"'`@\$><=;|&{(" * (@unix?"\\" : "")) ...]
 const whitespace_chars = [" \t\n\r"...]
 
 # Aux function to detect whether we're right after a
@@ -187,12 +187,13 @@ function completions(string, pos)
     partial = string[1:pos]
     inc_tag = Base.incomplete_tag(parse(partial , raise=false))
     if inc_tag in [:cmd, :string]
-        startpos = nextind(partial, rsearch(partial, non_filename_chars, pos))
+        m = match(r"[\t\n\r\"'`@\$><=;|&\{]| (?!\\)",reverse(partial))
+        startpos = length(partial)-(m == nothing ? 1 : m.offset) + 2
         r = startpos:pos
-        paths, r, success = complete_path(string[r], pos)
+        paths, r, success = complete_path(unescape_string(string[r]), pos)
         if inc_tag == :string &&
            length(paths) == 1 &&                              # Only close if there's a single choice,
-           !isdir(string[startpos:start(r)-1] * paths[1]) &&  # except if it's a directory
+           !isdir(unescape_string(string[startpos:start(r)-1] * paths[1])) &&  # except if it's a directory
            (length(string) <= pos || string[pos+1] != '"')    # or there's already a " at the cursor.
             paths[1] *= "\""
         end

base/string.jl

@@ -1075,7 +1075,24 @@ macro mstr(s...); triplequoted(s...); end
 ## shell-like command parsing ##
 
 function shell_parse(raw::AbstractString, interp::Bool)
-    s = strip(raw)
+    s = lstrip(raw)
+    #Strips the end but respects the space when the string endswith "\\ "
+    r = RevString(s)
+    i = start(r)
+    c_old = nothing
+    while !done(r,i)
+        c, j = next(r,i)
+        if c == '\\' && c_old == ' '
+            i -= 1
+            break
+        elseif !(c in _default_delims)
+            break
+        end
+        i = j
+        c_old = c
+    end
+    s = s[1:end-i+1]
+
     last_parse = 0:-1
     isempty(s) && return interp ? (Expr(:tuple,:()),last_parse) : ([],last_parse)
 

test/replcompletions.jl

@@ -164,6 +164,28 @@ c,r = test_scomplete("\$a")
     @test s[r] == "Pk"
 end
 
+let #test that it can auto complete with spaces in file/path
+    path = tempdir()
+    space_folder = randstring() * " r"
+    dir = joinpath(path, space_folder)
+    dir_space = replace(space_folder, " ", "\\ ")
+    mkdir(dir)
+    cd(path) do
+        open(joinpath(space_folder, "space .file"),"w") do f
+            s = @windows? "rm $dir_space\\\\space" : "cd $dir_space/space"
+            c,r = test_scomplete(s)
+            @test r == endof(s)-4:endof(s)
+            @test "space\\ .file" in c
+
+            s = @windows? "cd(\"$dir_space\\\\space" : "cd(\"$dir_space/space"
+            c,r = test_complete(s)
+            @test r == endof(s)-4:endof(s)
+            @test "space\\ .file\"" in c
+        end
+    end
+    rm(dir, recursive=true)
+end
+
 @windows_only begin
     tmp = tempname()
     path = dirname(tmp)