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Re: completion prompting

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On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 02:31:06PM +0200, grumpy@mailfence.com wrote:
>> with bash completion returns a message like
>> Display all 129 possibilities? (y or n)
>> how can i turn this off
>
> I don't know what you mean by "turning this off".
>
> The helper doing this is the readline library. Your shell picks
> configuration for readline from the files /etc/inputrc and
> ~/.inputrc.
>
> There is one variable which limits the maximum number of possible
> completions shown (default is 100). The variable is called
>
>  completion-query-items
>
> So, if I understood you correctly, you might experiment with putting
>
>  set completion-query-items 1000
>
> in your file ~/.inputrc. Or you set it to a negative number, then
> you're never asked (do at your own risk :-)
>
> See bash's man page, section READLINE, and the readline man page.
>
> But perhaps I didn't understand you correctly.
>
> Cheers
> -- t
>

that's is exactly what i was attempting to say
if i am reading the man page correctly
there is not a very fine control
i wrote a script that runs in bash
i would like to disable prompting for only this script

$if my_script
set completion-query-items -1
$endif

but this does not work

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completion prompting grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
  Re: completion prompting Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 14:50 +0200
  Re: completion prompting <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-04-05 15:00 +0200
    Re: completion prompting grumpy@mailfence.com - 2020-04-05 15:30 +0200
      Re: completion prompting Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-04-06 14:40 +0200

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