From: Pierre Baillet <oct@...>
Date: 2002-10-31T23:02:22+09:00
Subject: Readline Module and completion_proc

Dear rubyists,

I've been playing with the Readline module for the last hours and i'd
like to make a few suggestions:

In the documenation from current CVS[1], it says that completion proc
is a Proc object that should take a string as input parameter.

In fact and contrary to what I thought would be more logical, this object
only receives the last "part of word" typed by the user ie if I type "cd
pro" and then press <TAB>, i receive "pro" but not the "cd " string
before. As this is used to guess what completion we should offer to the
user, I thought it would be better for the Proc object to also receive
this part of the input (if I know my user is going to cd to somewhere, I
can complete only on matching folders for example).

so completion_proc would be
	Readline.complretion_proc = Proc.new{ |last_word, beginning| ... }

with last_word being "pro" and beginning "cd " in my example.


Maybe this mail should have been directed to ruby-core. It's not clear
yet in my mind what belongs to -talk and what belongs to -core.

Let me know if this is some kind of possible enhancement


My ruby is:
% ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-19) [i386-linux]
 

1:http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ruby/ext/readline/README?rev=1.1.1.1.6.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=ruby_1_6 

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre Baillet
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