Martin Panter added the comment:
There are actually a few other patches open adding wrappers for
rl_forced_update_display():
* Issue 1175004: From 2005, other APIs as well
* Issue 24727: Includes documentation
As well as the documentation, I think it would be good to add a test case for
new
Olivier Matz added the comment:
By the way, I have my own implementation of the patch that did before checking
the issue tracker. Instead of adding an argument to readline.redisplay(), it
adds a new function readline.forced_update_display().
I attach the patch for reference, I don't know what
Olivier Matz added the comment:
Hi,
I'm also interrested in this feature. Indeed, exporting
rl_forced_update_display() is the only way I've found to make
readline.set_completion_display_matches_hook() working properly. Without
forcing the redisplay, the prompt is not displayed. This seems to
New submission from Chris Hand:
The current implementation of readline implements the redisplay function, but
not the forced version. This patch maintains the current behavior as the
default, but also allows a bool to be passed which, if True, calls
rl_forced_update_display instead.
