Re: using perl's gnu-readline interface, howto 'completion' & 'filter history'?

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/9/15 5:19 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> 
> 
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>
>> The default completion function is filename completion.  If you want
>> something different you need to write your own.
> ---
>     Yes... so I look for a 'complete' function that I
> can call with my options (or to choose some set of supplied
> choices, like usernames or hostnames) -- but minimally, the
> readline call I would use to set the options I want returned.
> 
>     But... I don't see a complete call in readline.

You might want to look at the description of the hook functions in
the `Completion Variables' section of the readline manual.  Readline
does filename completion internally, and nothing else; everything
else is performed by a calling application.

You could also look at the code in bashline.c to see how bash does it.

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