Re: Space vs. non-space separators in COMP_WORDBREAKS

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/17/21 2:00 PM, konsolebox wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021, 00:49 Chet Ramey, <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> > Well, the documentation says the line gets broken into words the way
> > readline does it, and readline uses the characters in
> > rl_completer_word_breaks as delimiters but doesn't remove them from
> > the list. It just uses them as word separators to bound the word to be
> > completed.
>
> But that doesn't explain why the spaces are removed and I can't find
> anywhere in the documentation of readline that explains it.  I would
> have to study the code itself to know why.

Because nobody wants empty arguments to deal with, but it's useful to
know where readline splits the words when it finds the word it wants to
be completed.

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