Readline and unwanted filename completion

[Simon Budig]

In article <uheowosxs.fsf at python.net>, Michael Hudson wrote:
> Simon Budig <simon at ping-pong.budig> writes:
>> Michael Hudson wrote:
>> > Simon Budig <simon at ping-pong.budig> writes:
>> [...]
>> >> BTW: The stupid fixed width limit of SF messed the patch up.
>> >> Maybe creating an attachment is more useful...
>> > 
>> > Well, anyone can see roughly what it does.  If it gets accepted (or
>> > more likely, noone complains for a couple of weeks), I'll check it in
>> > from your patch.
>> 
>> Great! If you do this, please make sure, that a similiar patch goes
>> into python 2.2.
> 
> Well, it can't go into 2.2.  If you mean 2.2.1, that's a little
> greyer; there might be people out there who rely on the current
> behaviour.

Hmm. Maybe it is possible to export this variable as an optional
parameter to readline.set_completer with the default on the
current behaviour? I think it is really annoying, that readline
in the current python-module implementation insists on completing
filenames when the completer returns no matches.

Bye,
	Simon
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