Strip trailing whitespace when completing tasks.

Replace the primitive substitutions inside the completion function with a call to sed (instead of calling head), and supply more powerful substitutions there.

todo.sh

@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ help()
 
 		  Options:
 		    -@
-		        Hide context names in list output.  Use twice to show context
+		        Hide context names in list output. Use twice to show context
 		        names (default).
 		    -+
-		        Hide project names in list output.  Use twice to show project
+		        Hide project names in list output. Use twice to show project
 		        names (default).
 		    -c
 		        Color mode
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ help()
 		    -p
 		        Plain mode turns off colors
 		    -P
-		        Hide priority labels in list output.  Use twice to show
+		        Hide priority labels in list output. Use twice to show
 		        priority labels (default).
 		    -a
 		        Don't auto-archive tasks automatically on completion
@@ -199,15 +199,12 @@ help()
 		    list [TERM...]
 		    ls [TERM...]
 		      Displays all tasks that contain TERM(s) sorted by priority with line
-		      numbers.  Each task must match all TERMs (logical AND); to display
+		      numbers.  If no TERM specified, lists entire todo.txt.
-		      tasks that contain any TERM (logical OR), use
-		      "TERM1\|TERM2\|..." (with quotes), or TERM1\\\|TERM2 (unquoted).
-		      If no TERM specified, lists entire todo.txt.
 
 		    listall [TERM...]
 		    lsa [TERM...]
 		      Displays all the lines in todo.txt AND done.txt that contain TERM(s)
-		      sorted by priority with line numbers.  If no TERM specified, lists
+		      sorted by priority with line  numbers.  If no TERM specified, lists
 		      entire todo.txt AND done.txt concatenated and sorted.
 
 		    listcon
@@ -217,8 +214,8 @@ help()
 		    listfile [SRC [TERM...]]
 		    lf [SRC [TERM...]]
 		      Displays all the lines in SRC file located in the todo.txt directory,
-		      sorted by priority with line numbers.  If TERM specified, lists
+		      sorted by priority with line  numbers.  If TERM specified, lists
-		      all lines that contain TERM(s) in SRC file.
+		      all lines that contain TERM in SRC file.
 		      Without any arguments, the names of all text files in the todo.txt
 		      directory are listed.
 
@@ -226,7 +223,7 @@ help()
 		    lsp [PRIORITY] [TERM...]
 		      Displays all tasks prioritized PRIORITY.
 		      If no PRIORITY specified, lists all prioritized tasks.
-		      If TERM specified, lists only prioritized tasks that contain TERM(s).
+		      If TERM specified, lists only prioritized tasks that contain TERM.
 
 		    listproj
 		    lsprj

todo_completion

@@ -38,20 +38,28 @@ _todo()
                     +*) completions=$(TODOTXT_VERBOSE=0 todo.sh command listproj);;
                     @*) completions=$(TODOTXT_VERBOSE=0 todo.sh command listcon);;
                     *)  if [[ "$cur" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
-                            local item=$(TODOTXT_VERBOSE=0 todo.sh -@ -+ -p -x command ls "^ *${cur} " | head -n 1)
-
                             # Remove the (padded) task number; we prepend the
-                            # user-provided $cur.
+                            # user-provided $cur instead.
-                            item=${item#* }
+                            # Remove the timestamp prepended by the -t option,
-
+                            # and the done date (for done tasks); there's no
-                            # Remove the timestamp prepended by the -t option;
+                            # todo.txt option for that yet.
-                            # there's no todo.txt option for that yet.
+                            # But keep priority and "x"; they're short and may
-                            item=${item#[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9] }
+                            # provide useful context.
-
+                            # Remove any trailing whitespace; the Bash
+                            # completion inserts a trailing space itself.
+                            # Finally, limit the output to a single line just as
+                            # a safety check of the ls action output.
+                            local todo=$( \
+                                TODOTXT_VERBOSE=0 todo.sh -@ -+ -p -x command ls "^ *${cur} " | \
+                                sed -e 's/^ *[0-9]\+ //' -e 's/\((.) \)[0-9]\{2,4\}-[0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{2\} /\1/' \
+                                    -e 's/\([xX] \)\([0-9]\{2,4\}-[0-9]\{2\}-[0-9]\{2\} \)\{1,2\}/\1/' \
+                                    -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' \
+                                    -e '1q' \
+                            )
                             # Append task text as a shell comment. This
                             # completion can be a safety check before a
                             # destructive todo.txt operation.
-                            [ "$item" ] && COMPREPLY[0]="$cur # $item"
+                            [ "$todo" ] && COMPREPLY[0]="$cur # $todo"
                             return 0
                         else
                             return 0