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

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/21/23 7:00 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
> 2023年3月22日(水) 6:00 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>:
> > I don't use programmable completion, but I could *imagine* someone using
> > a temp file to store the results, then using mapfile to read them back
> > in, to avoid the fork() that the command substitution uses.
>
> I wouldn't say my usage is typical, but I do that in fact. I have a
> shell function to do that for an arbitrary command (which I once
> posted in help-bash [1] but now it's old. The latest is [2]) and use
> it everywhere.

So is your function suite dependent on the compgen invocations changing
the readline completion state?

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