[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #62492] cd foo tab should give only directories

[Arun Giridhar]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #62492 (project octave):

Readline can do certain completion tasks with rl_attempted_completion_function
but I have not seen that used inside a REPL to distinguish between files and
directories or anything like that. Note that bash uses the bash-completion
package which is a separate project to make it context aware for various
commands like cd, sort, hg, git, and all that. So typing "sort --ran TAB" will
give the choice of random-sort or random-source etc.

This sounds useful for Octave commands too (imagine typing format TAB and it
lists long, short, compact, etc). But definitely a serious undertaking.


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