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).
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