On 11/14/14 4:57 PM, Vadim Berezniker wrote:
> > If the completer had a way to tell readline (through Bash) where the
> > completion should be inserted that would allow a workaround for this
> issue
> > without requiring any actions from the user.
>
> It's not only that, but the text that would have to be removed from the
> buffer (the `previous' word) before inserting any possible completions,
> and making sure that text isn't removed from the line inappropriately.
>
>
> Correct. Is that feasible? It looked doable from my look through the bash &
> readline code, but I don't have a lot of familiarity with intricacies of
> shells/terminals.
> Would there be interest in a patch that would implement such a feature?
Sure, it's feasible. I don't have any plans to do it anytime soon, though,
which is why I suggested the approach leveraging what's available today.
I'd be glad to look at a patch that added this functionality to the
completion code.
Chet
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