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Re: [PATCH] initial word completion: fix completion of prefix

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  Re: [PATCH] initial word completion: fix completion of prefix Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-11-16 11:34 -0500

#14827 — Re: [PATCH] initial word completion: fix completion of prefix

On 11/9/18 1:52 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> If the user types:
> 
> gcfile.c
> 
> And positions the cursor of 'f', a programmable completion enabled on
> initial word (-I) will fail to run. This is because the parsing gives
> priority first to the _minimal programmable completion that does
> nothing, and then if that is disabled it gives the next priority to
> command completion, unlike what happens when completing a full word,
> stopping the initial word completion from working.

Thanks for the report and patch.

Chet

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