[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #34624] Tab completion of multiple directory levels is broken.

[Daniel Robinson]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34624 (project octave):

It seems that readline is treating the path separator as a word break
character when it does tab completion.  This is good for tab completion inside
an arithmetic expression, but it's bad for filename completion.

In readline version 5 and later, there is a hook that allows you to set the
word break characters when the user hits the TAB key.  I'm attaching a
possible fix that sets the word break characters to only whitespace and quotes
whenever the input line begins with the name of a directory function.

(file #25174)
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