[docs] [issue10415] readline.insert_text documentation incomplete

[Matheus Vieira Portela]

Matheus Vieira Portela added the comment:

I could get readline.insert_text() to work, ish, without calling startup_hook. The script is attached to this message. Apparently, there is some need to call readline.redisplay() to update what's on screen.

However, I can't really understand what's happening... The script prints "Testing text" only when the input has exactly one character. Also, by calling redisplay() after insert_text(), the string is not on the command line buffer, but already printed on screen. I should take a look on the GNU Readline Library documentation to understand better how it works.

Anyway, I still think the documentation is unclear on these behaviours and should be updated.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file34366/test_readline.py

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