* Prof Brian Ripley [2010-08-12 09:04]:
> The readline documentation suggests that applications should set
> their name by rl_readline_name. That will be done and documented as
> from R 2.12.0, but the application name is 'R', not
> 'RCustomCompletion' -- and the only example in any of the posti
And where did you find the documentation that it should? Not in the R
sources AFAICS
The readline documentation suggests that applications should set their
name by rl_readline_name. That will be done and documented as from R
2.12.0, but the application name is 'R', not 'RCustomCompletio
This issue has been brought at least twice in R-help:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-September/173828.html
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-May/197360.html
Looking at the source in src/unix/sys-std.c, it seems that the definition
of rl_readline_name as "RCustomCompletion" is