[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44095] readline configuration - tab autocompletion of paths

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #44095 (project octave):

I'm attaching a patch - it's against 3.6.2, because that's what we're using.
But it should be quite easy to port it to newer versions. 

The change is very simple - it uses the existing infrastructure of recognizing
if 'is_completing_dirfns()', and if so, it limits the word splitting
characters of GNU readline to minimum (space, tab, newline) using
'rl_completion_word_break_hook'. 

I did not test/think much about how weird things can people do with their
paths, so maybe some other reduced set of word breakers would be more
appropriate. 

But it works for sensible paths, and can be extended further. That's probably
what most users need.

liborm

(file #34298)
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File name: octave-3.6.2-directory-commands-can-autocomplete-across-slash.patch
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