Re: [Rd] R readline not honoring RCustomCompletion

2010-08-12 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* 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

Re: [Rd] R readline not honoring RCustomCompletion

2010-08-12 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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

[Rd] R readline not honoring RCustomCompletion

2010-08-09 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
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