Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/16/17:03:13
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Readline has a set of characters it uses as word
> delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that
> set to its tastes. Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which
> makes it convenient to complete colon-separated lists like $PATH.
> Since the colon breaks words, the only thing that gets passed to the
> filename completer is `/' and whatever follows it. Quoting the colon
> (the simplest thing to use is a backslash) causes readline to not
> consider it a word break character.
In that case, it sounds like the right question to be asking is whether
there is a user-visible knob that we can tweak to modify the set of
characters which bash passes to readline as word break characters.
Both ":" and "@" seem like reasonable candidates to allow removing
from the word-break list, with the obvious caveats about functionality
that would no longer be supported within the shell: $PATH-type list
modification and automatic hostname completion, respectively.
Chris
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