On 11/13/13 7:33 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> When I auo complete "abc" in emacs and there are two matches abcdef
> and abcghi, both are shown of course but the end of the common prefix
> 'c' is highlighted, which makes it easy for the eyes to choose next.
> Can we do that in readline too? I had a quick look at the source code
> and I think rl_complete_internal() could be modified to do that, even
> if it's applicable for filename completion only, but not entirely
> sure. My goal is to make bash highlight it when I autocomplete long
> file names.
That's on the list of things to look at for a future version, now that
readline-6.3 will have color support.
Chet
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