From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19349 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2004 20:17:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19330 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2004 20:17:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 20:17:51 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1Alw87-0004HT-3E; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:17:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:17:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: chet@po.cwru.edu Cc: eliz@elta.co.il, bug-readline@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Difficulty with the readline completion interface in GDB Message-ID: <20040128201743.GA16409@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: chet@po.cwru.edu, eliz@elta.co.il, bug-readline@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040118224929.GA8226@nevyn.them.org> <040128200429.AA22556.SM@caleb.ins.cwru.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <040128200429.AA22556.SM@caleb.ins.cwru.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00329.txt.bz2 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? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer