From 9532165df3f7e055d8e4e8fee021fdda96593f46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Allen <screwtape@froup.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 16:05:21 +1100
Subject: Quote meta-characters in the completion pattern.

Because we're completing text from the document, we can't assume it's
going to be a sensible regex pattern, or glob pattern, let alone both,
so we should quote the pattern before we hand it off to helper tools
like grep and find.
---
 vis-complete | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'vis-complete')

diff --git a/vis-complete b/vis-complete
index 52dd464..fa5bbf0 100755
--- a/vis-complete
+++ b/vis-complete
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 
+basic_regex_quote() { printf "%s" "$1" | sed 's|[\\.*^$[]|\\&|g'; }
+glob_quote () { printf "%s" "$1" | sed 's|[\\?*[]]|\\&|g'; }
+
 PATTERN=""
 COMPLETE_WORD=0
 FIND_FILE_LIMIT=1000
@@ -26,7 +29,9 @@ while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
 done
 
 if [ $COMPLETE_WORD = 1 ]; then
-	tr -cs '[:alnum:]_' '\n' | grep "^$PATTERN." | sort -u
+	tr -cs '[:alnum:]_' '\n' |
+		grep "^$(basic_regex_quote "$PATTERN")." |
+		sort -u
 else
 	case $PATTERN in
 		/*)
@@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ else
 	START=$(dirname "$PATTERN")
 	find "$START" \
 		! -path '*/\.*' \
-		-a -path "$PATTERN*" 2>/dev/null |
+		-a -path "$(glob_quote "$PATTERN")*" 2>/dev/null |
 		head -n $FIND_FILE_LIMIT |
 		sort
 fi |
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