Re: Unnecessary change to readline-colored-completion-prefix

[Grisha Levit]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 12:04 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>
> As the original bug report observed, this does not work with at least
> some versions of dircolors, so you couldn't specify a value for LS_COLORS
> without the dot. That was the entire point of the bug report.

The reporter complained that the entries

>    readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36

and

>    .readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36

did not work, which is true.

But that's because he did not try the correct form:

    *readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36

See:

    $ dircolors <(echo '*foo 31')
    LS_COLORS='*foo=31:';

So I would agree with Daniël, this was user error rather than an issue
with Readline.