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

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #19, bug #44095 (project octave):

The attached changeset does roughly what jwe was asking for.

Whenever a completion occurs, it looks for file completions as well as
variable or function completions, by looking at the space-delimited tail of
the command line.

It makes a first cut at handling quoted strings, but has lots of rough edges
still.

It uses a hack to detect if a string is a directory -- copying from libgnu-hg.
 Is there an Octave "is_directory" function or some such?

It also needs to remove the check "matches > 0" (i.e., at least one
variable/function is a valid completion) from the code that returns a
non-empty completion.  Will that cause troubles?

(file #35778)
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