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

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/22/23 4:33 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:


> Do you think calling `compgen', which
> leaves the state of `compopt -o filenames', etc., outside the bindable
> function `compete' would affect any behaviors?

That's more or less the question. It's not that compgen leaves modified
readline state outside a call to complete -- each call to completion
reinitializes the completion state -- but that it affects subsequent
treatment of the generated completions. My position is that if you use
compgen in the same shell instance where you're attempting completion,
you want those changed behaviors to affect how readline treats the
generated completions.

One possible approach is to detect when compgen is called outside a
readline completion context and restore the readline variables it modifies
in that case.

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