Difficulty with the readline completion interface in GDB

[Chet Ramey]

> > There's a lot of possible solutions.  There could be a hook called before
> > rl_complete generates the matches list, which could fudge the complete
> > characters - most direct solution, not very elegant.  A function could be
> > called to get the list of complete characters, which would then be sensitive
> > to rl_point - not sure what other issues this could cause.  The filename
> > completion code could search backwards according to the list of filename
> > wordbreak characters; this would solve the specific problem but not the
> > more general one.  Probably there are others.
> 
> I think the first solution is the easiest one and will do the job.

I added the hook:  char *(*rl_completion_word_break_hook)(void)

The completion code sets the word break characters from this function's
return value, defaulting to rl_completer_word_break_characters if it is
unset or returns NULL.

This will be in bash-3.0/readline-5.0.

Chet

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