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Re: Exclude builtins from command completion


From: kaycee gb
Subject: Re: Exclude builtins from command completion
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:53:51 +0000

Le Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:25:57 -0500,
Chet Ramey <address@hidden> a écrit :

> On 1/23/20 8:51 AM, kaycee gb wrote:
> 
> > I understand that by application-settable variable, you mean it can't be
> > altered at run time, like COMP_WORDBREAKS for example. All the references to
> > rl_completer_quote_characters I can find are with c/c++/python/... code. Is
> > there any chance to change that variable without having to rebuild
> > something ? Which is not really portable in my opinion and in my case :/
> 
> Applications linked with readline can modify that variable. Whether they
> choose to expose that to the user is optional, and bash doesn't expose it
> to the user like it does with COMP_WORDBREAKS. I'm not sure any
> applications that use readline do.
> 
I see. I hope that completing a colon would not happen too often with this
project. 

Thanks for the help. 

kaycee,



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