Source: kshellcompletion.h

/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
    Copyright (C) 2000 David Smith  

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Library General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
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    the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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*/

#ifndef KSHELLCOMPLETION_H
#define KSHELLCOMPLETION_H

#include 
#include 

#include "kurlcompletion.h"

class KShellCompletionPrivate;

/**
 * This class does shell-like completion of file names.
 * A string passed to makeCompletion() will be interpreted as a shell 
 * command line. Completion will be done on the last argument on the line. 
 * Returned matches consist of the first arguments (uncompleted) plus the 
 * completed last argument.
 *
 * @short Shell-like completion of file names
 * @author David Smith 
 * @version $Id:
 */
class KShellCompletion : public KURLCompletion 
{
	Q_OBJECT

public:
        /**
         * Constructs a KShellCompletion object.
         */
	KShellCompletion();

	/**
	 * Finds completions to the given text.
	 * The first match is returned and emitted in the signal match() 
	 */
	QString makeCompletion(const QString&);

protected:
	// Called by KCompletion
	void postProcessMatch( QString *match ) const;
	void postProcessMatches( QStringList *matches ) const;
        void postProcessMatches( KCompletionMatches *matches ) const;

private:
	// Find the part of text that should be completed
	void splitText(const QString &text, QString &text_start, QString &text_compl) const;
	// Insert quotes and neseccary escapes
	bool quoteText(QString *text, bool force, bool skip_last) const;
	QString unquote(const QString &text) const;
		                                                                        
	QString m_text_start; // part of the text that was not completed
	QString m_text_compl; // part of the text that was completed (unchanged)

    QChar m_word_break_char;
	QChar m_quote_char1;
	QChar m_quote_char2;
	QChar m_escape_char;  
				
protected:
	virtual void virtual_hook( int id, void* data );
private:
	KShellCompletionPrivate *d;
};

#endif // KSHELLCOMPLETION_H