Difficulty with the readline completion interface in GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:04:29PM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > 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.

Great, thank you!  Would you mind posting the patch for this feature,
so that I can merge it into the version of readline we are currently
using?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer