Re: preventing complete from putting trailing spaces

[Chet Ramey]

> I'm trying to write a complete function that'll sometimes return
> directories and sometimes return files.  When it returns directories
> (with a trailing '/'), I don't want readline to place trailing spaces. 
> OTOH, when it returns files (with no trailing '/'), I do want it to
> place a trailing space.  How do I do this? 

Use the `-o filenames' option to complete when installing the compspec.
Then return the filenames and directory names as usual from the
completion function and let readline do the right thing.

Chet


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