From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2011-03-04T03:25:09+09:00
Subject: Readline insists in ordering the returned array

Hi, I want to use Ruby Readline for a custom console. Commands are
"ddd", "bbb", "aaa", "ccc" and I want they to be shown in *that* order
when pressing TAB with empty buffered line. Example code:

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

require "readline"

commands = %w{ddd bbb aaa ccc}

Readline.completion_proc = proc do |s|
  commands
end

while line = Readline.readline(">>> ", true)
end
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Running it:

>>> TAB
aaa bbb ccc ddd


I strongly need that the commands are shown in the original order! but
Readline shorts them:

>>> TAB
ddd bbb aaa ccc


Being a C ruby code I expect it's hard to monkey patch it. Maybe I
miss something to keep the order of the array?

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>