Re: [PATCH] Save more readline state when running compgen

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/21/23 4:04 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 3:47 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > OK, say you did in fact run compgen in the foreground -- very unusual
> > because it's awkward to capture the possible completions that way -- to
> > generate completions.
>
> Sorry I should have explained. I hit this issue because I was using
> compgen in an unorthodox way, just to check if some files matching a
> glob exist. Basically something like
>
> compgen -G 'foo/*' >/dev/null && COMPREPLY=(bar)
>
> This can be a lot faster than expanding the glob into an array and
> then testing that the array is not empty.

OK, which do you think would be the more common case? Wanting the options
used to generate completions to persist or using it in this way?

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