Re: New autocompletion feature

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 17 July 2008 14:31, Manuel Schölling wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I often use commands like
> 
> plot "afile" w l <and many more options>, \
> "anotherfile" w l <the same options>, \
> ...
> 
> So I implemented an auto completion feature for this, so you can use it 
> like this:
> 
> plot "" <all your options>
>        ^ place cursor here and press <tab>
> result:
> plot "file1" <all your options>,
>   "file2" <all your options>,
>   "file3" <all your options>


How is this different from the auto-completion that libreadline does already?

In other words, is your patch adding the auto-completion capability to
gnuplot's built-in readline, or is it something added on top of libreadline?



 
> There is an minimal example application attached to this email but in 
> this preprocessor command mix I cannot figure out where to place the 
> rl_bind_key command in the gnuplot source code.
> 
> It would be great if you could tell me where to place this command so I 
> can create a patch for this feature.
> 
> Please note that its feature should not remove the current <tab> feature 
> and will via Alt+C or something.
> 
> Cheers,
> Manuel
> 
> 

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