Re: [RFC] support 'COMP_WORDBREAKS' value on a per-completion basis

[Raphaël Droz]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:49:20AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 5/30/11 2:05 PM, Raphaël Droz wrote:
> > === Rationale:
> > Let's say you want to complete http URL (which contain ':').
> > 
> > The completion probably contains this kind of statement:
> > 
> > _comp() {
> >     COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "http://foo http://bar"; -- "$cur") )
> > }
> > 
> > After the completion function is evaluated, readline will consider
> > the value of $COMP_WORDBREAKS to split the word to complete...
> 
> The question that comes to mind is whether or not this complication is
> worth it.  This seems like a pretty heavyweight solution to an
> occasional problem with `:'.

would you have any advise to give for a lighter solution ?
Isn't rl_completion_word_break_hook the way to go ?