From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: dan@cgsoftware.com Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Heads up: New readline released Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:01:00 -0000 Message-id: <3791-Fri15Jun2001095831+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: <15145.14235.812116.572454@kwikemart.cygnus.com> <87vglyfivb.fsf@cgsoftware.com> <20010615005233.A13566@redhat.com> <87puc6fi2s.fsf@cgsoftware.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00132.html > From: Daniel Berlin > Date: 15 Jun 2001 01:06:03 -0400 > > >>Any prayer that we can add the type of hooks we really want to be able > >>to add, ( I remember someone mentioning, maybe Eli, that we can't do > >>symbol completion the "right way" because of readline's insistence on > >>word seperator characters) yet? > > > > The readline maintainer is a very reasonable person. I'm sure he'd accept > > a patch if it was in the spirit of the rest of the package. > > Well, the problem is that it would be hard to do without adding > interfaces that go around the current interfaces. Yes, we need a couple of hooks that would allow our functions to be called before Readline begins its completion code, for example to set the word-constituent characters.