Re: Space vs. non-space separators in COMP_WORDBREAKS

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/17/21 9:20 PM, konsolebox wrote:

> > > 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.
>
> Ok but anyway, shouldn't this be mentioned in the manual?  It's pretty
> much intuitive that if space is removed (which is the first one easily
> noticed), so should other separators specified in COMP_WORDBREAKS.

Except that turns out not to be useful. It's intuitive to say that
whitespace separates words and the non-whitespace word break characters
allow you to complete on parts of words.

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