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Re: [PATCH] Add nofirstword completion option

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On 5/23/18 5:44 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote:

> So by that, do you mean that it's possible to stop autocompleting to
> files/dirs/binaries just using a programmable completion script? Or did
> I misunderstand? Apologies if that's the case.
> 
> Right now we do have completion scripts to implement the help text for
> the commands (and for the empty set, which displays a general help with
> a summary), what's missing is stopping files/dirs/binaries completion
> for the first word, so that exclusively the commands are shown.

Exactly. What you want, I gather, is a way to restrict completions on the
command word to the small set of router commands valid in whichever mode
the console happens to be. Programmable completion provides a mechanism to
do that, but there is a missing piece of functionality that would allow it
to work on the command word. That's the change I would prefer to see.

Chet
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Re: [PATCH] Add nofirstword completion option Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-05-23 09:15 -0400

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