On 3/31/22 4:44 PM, Jeremy Gurr wrote:
I have put together my own bash debugger (I like it better than the others I've seen), and wanted to have variable name auto completion in the 'read' built-in, just like it is in the base command line. Is there a reason that bash uses a readline that is differently configured in the 'read' builtin versus the full featured autocompletion available in readline at the command line? Would this be a difficult thing to implement?
The completion available to the `read' builtin is readline's default completion, which is what's appropriate in the vast majority of cases. The fix/enhancement is to add an option to `read', similar to `-e', so that using it would result in `read' using bash's command line completion mechanism instead of readline's default. This is the second request for something like this, and I'm looking at it for the next release after bash-5.2 (which is currently in alpha testing). -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/