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Re: completion prompting

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: completion prompting
Date	2020-04-06 14:40 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 03:22:08PM +0200, grumpy@mailfence.com wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 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 :-)

> i wrote a script that runs in bash
> i would like to disable prompting for only this script

What makes you think your script would USE this at all?  Are you running a
"read -e" command inside the script?

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

help bind

Probably something like    bind 'set ...'   but I have zero experience
with this.

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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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