From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T22:07:52+09:00
Subject: Readline question - completely replace input?

Hi.

This is a strange question perhaps ...

I use Readline.readline to fetch user input.

Now if the user types:


"abc"

And then presses tab, I want this to complete to:

"do_action foobar"

So, yes, the original input "abc" no longer has anything to do with the
end result. :)

Is this possible? So far I am using Readline only to do something like:


"do<TAB>"

expand into

"do_action "

But it would be kind of neat to both append something specifically after
TAB was pressed, and to also completely change the original input at the
same time.

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