From: Robert Klemme Date: 2003-06-13T19:32:43+09:00 Subject: Re: Interactive Console Program with Tab-Completion bash (and I belive tcsh) have programmable completion that does exactly what you are asking for. Maybe a look into their source code helps. see here for a description of the bash feature http://www.gnu.org/manual/bash/html_mono/bashref.html#SEC110 Regards robert "Zachary P. Landau" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:e81e52a8.0306121638.1c1eac15@posting.google.com... > Hello, > > I am running into a lot of trouble trying to find a good way to > implement my interactive console program. Here is the idea. You are > given a prompt (let's get creative and use "prompt> "). There are, > lets say, two commands. "add" and "delete". When a user types "add", > enters a space, and then hit tabs, the tab completion should return a > list of files in the current directory. When the user types delete, > space, and then tab, however, the user should get a list of > directories that have already been selected with add. > > The problem with using the readline extension for this, as some as you > may know, is it does not allow you to get any text before the last > space (which is crucial, since that is where my command is). Someone > did submit a patch to ruby-talk to fix this problem, but it breaks > backwards compatability (well, that and for some reason it wasn't > working quite right for me :P) > > I was wondering if anyone had a good solution to this. I guess the > least desirable option would be writing a new readline-like interface. > If someone has a better idea, though, or has alreayd done this, please > let me know. Thanks.