[bat <= 0.26.0] broken completions when entries contain backslash (\)

[Jai-JAP]

Screencast.From.2025-10-20.12-59-37.mp4

As seen in the above video, the completions are broken for bat -l which uses escaped spaces for multi worded completions.

IMO the best result would be to have the completion add the selected entry in quotes without any backslashes to keep it simple and easily understandable.

[akinomyoga]

Please provide the result of ble summary also for this discusssion.

I can reproduce this issue with bat -l [Tab].

[Jai-JAP]

GNU bash, version 5.3.3(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) [Arch Linux]
ble.sh, version 0.4.0-devel4+2f564e63 (noarch) [git 2.51.1.dirty, GNU Make 4.4.1, GNU Awk 5.3.2, API 4.0, PMA Avon 8-g1, (GNU MPFR 4.2.2, GNU MP 6.3.0)]
bash-completion, version 2.16.0 (hash:480ffcc6a751e55621ec526eb5dea7a0d86d9e72, 17877 bytes) (noarch)
fzf key-bindings, (hash:30b776a502a3ff1c2d6ef99810a964a660038dcd, 6494 bytes) (noarch) (integration: on)
fzf completion, (hash:c30c47bf7ee5029dbe195dbec6843bb9a63fd897, 20497 bytes) (noarch) (integration: on)
bash-preexec, (hash:f20ece1798d9b25099485a6094408adba1f6da83, 14601 bytes) (noarch) (integration: on)
locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
terminal: TERM=xterm-ghostty wcwidth=15.0-west/16.0-2+ri, xterm:10 (1;10;0)
options: +noclobber +autocd +cdspell +dirspell +extglob +histappend -hostcomplete +inherit_errexit +no_empty_cmd_completion +progcomp_alias

[akinomyoga]

Thanks. I'll try to seek if this can be fixed at the bat side.

[akinomyoga]

sharkdp/bat#3448

[Jai-JAP]

Tested, works as intended with modifications applied.

[akinomyoga]

Thanks for checking!