cmd, readline, and /path/filename completion

[Michael Hudson]

Dave Cinege <dcinege at psychosis.com> writes:

> Dunno much about programming readline, so maybe this is obvious.
> 
> I toying with a unix shell written in python using shlex and cmd.
> (For now based on the _Python 2.1 Bible_  lextocon example...)
> 
> It's actually quite functional at this point. (Though replacing
> bash with it, doesn't quite work yet... <grin>)
> 
> I'm trying to tweak the readline functionality, and am a bit lost.
> 
> In Bash
> 	cd /etc/<tab>
> Will display a list of files in /etc/ to complete against.
> 
> In my shell, I will always see the files in the current directory.
> 
> What must be done to mimic the bash functionaly? Is it an option that
> must be turned on in readline? Do I have to snag the line, and if it is a 
> valid path, cd to that path? (then back to PWD)

I'm guessing that you need to fiddle what characters readline thinks
are word boundaries.  readline.set_completer_delims looks hopeful.

Cheers,
M.

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