# Description
Attempting to complete a directory with hidden files could cause a
variety of issues. When Rust parses the partial path to be completed
into components, it removes the trailing `.` since it interprets this to
mean "the current directory", but in the case of the completer we
actually want to treat the trailling `.` as a literal `.`. This PR fixes
this by adding a `.` back into the Path components if the last character
of the path is a `.` AND the path is longer than 1 character (eg., not
just a ".", since that correctly gets interpreted as Component::CurDir).
Here are some things this fixes:
- Panic when tab completing for hidden files in a directory with hidden
files (ex. `ls test/.`)
- Panic when tab completing a directory with only hidden files (since
the common prefix ends with a `.`, causing the previous issue)
- Mishandling of tab completing hidden files in directory (ex. `ls
~/.<TAB>` lists all files instead of just hidden files)
- Trailing `.` being inexplicably removed when tab completing a
directory without hidden files
While testing for this PR I also noticed there is a similar issue when
completing with `..` (ex. `ls ~/test/..<TAB>`) which is not fixed by
this PR (edit: see #11922).
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Added a hidden-files-within-directories test to the `file_completions`
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