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Re: readline and TAB-completion?

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Ulli Horlacher wrote:

> I need an input function with GNU readline support. So far I have:
> 
>     import readline
>     readline.parse_and_bind("tab: complete")
> 
>     file = raw_input('File to send: ')
> 
> 
> Cursor keys are working, but TAB-completion works only in the current
> directory. Example:
> 
> 
> File to send: [TAB][TAB]
> argv.py              error.py             md5b64.py            x.py

[...]

> Is there a way to make TAB-completion work for other directories, too?

Remove "/" from the set of delimiters:

readline.set_completer_delims(
    "".join(c for c in readline.get_completer_delims() if c != "/"))

> murksigkeiten

I wonder what's in there ;)

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readline and TAB-completion? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-25 07:02 +0000
  Re: readline and TAB-completion? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-11-25 10:44 +0100
    Re: readline and TAB-completion? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-25 12:44 +0000

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