Re: [Bug-readline] tab completion

[Chet Ramey]

> hi,all
> I am new to use readline .i want to implement tab comletion on arguments
> for example
> > software + space + TAB
> It can list software arguments {install,uninstall} and so on
> Now i already impletment command in first level
> 
> is that right to use rl_completion_entry_function pointer?
> how to get the first level value when i implement second leve tab
> completion

Check out how bash does it (bashline.c in the bash distribution).  There's
also a simple example in the readline source distribution (examples/fileman.c)
that shows what you need to do.

Chet

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