Re: [Bug-readline] No bug, but a question

[Chet Ramey]

>    I want to implement a match-generator, that returns directory names only. 
> I 
> tried to use
> rl_filename_completion_function
> embedded in a function of type
> rl_compentry_func_t.
>    There I tried to filter out matches, that contained a slash at the end. 
> But 
> all matches didn't contain a slash there. I set
> rl_filename_completion_desired
>    to 1, because I read something about directories getting a slash attached 
> with this variable set. Still no luck.
>    What can I do? Do you probably have a function doing exactly that, for I 
> think it's not too uncommon. Bash at least can do it.

You have to do the check yourself: go through the match list, stat (or lstat)
each entry, and check whether or not it is a directory.  Bash has a couple of
functions to do that; one is bashline.c:test_for_directory().

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/