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Subject: Re: make first different character bold when showing completions ala emacs
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>>>>> "CR" == Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:

CR> There is an option in readline-7.0 that will cause completion to display
CR> the common prefix of a set of possible completions in a distinctive
CR> color.  This has essentially the same visual effect.

OK. I see http://packages.debian.org/readline-common is only at 6.3 yet.
(Hope that option is turned on by default when it hits Debian. Else I
won't remember to turn it on.)