%(prompt Prompt: ) parsing bugs

[yarda]

The following content of .tigrc works for me:
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G%(prompt)

But the following prompt with custom text don't work (it is not parsed or the quotes are not removed before running the command):
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G"%(prompt Prompt: )" - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G"%(prompt Prompt:)" - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G%(prompt Prompt: ) - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G%(prompt Prompt:) - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G %(prompt Prompt: ) - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G %(prompt Prompt:) - Failed to format arguments
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G "%(prompt Prompt: )" - same result as running git log -G \"%(prompt)\" i.e. wrong result, quotes are not removed
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G '%(prompt Prompt: )' - same result as running git log -G \'%(prompt)\' i.e. wrong result, quotes are not removed

The only way which I found how to make it work correctly is not to use spaces in the prompt, i.e.:
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G%(promptPrompt:) or for multi word prompt:
bind generic <Ctrl-f> :!git log -G%(promptSearch_regexp:)

which differs from the examples in the documentation.

[jonas]

This indeed look like a bug. I think the quotes should be removed during the formatting, similar to how bash does it.

[thomasjachmann]

@jonas I currently also get "Failed to format arguments" whenever I add a space. I use the configuration in .gitconfig:

[tig "bind"]
  main = B !@git branch "%(prompt Branchname: )" %(commit)

This is the version with two spaces, but either one of them (between prompt and Branchname or between colon and closing bracket) leads to the error.

$ tig -v
tig version 2.4.1
ncurses version 5.7.20081102
readline version 7.0