* Chet Ramey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-18 00:22]: >> I'd like to know if it is possible to change the options of the >> programable completion within the completion function. > > Not currently. I'm thinking about a new builtin that would accept the > same set of -o options as complete/compgen (and probably +o to turn > them off, as with the `set' builtin).
Yes, something like this would be very useful for the programable completion. But in the meantime can you describe what exactly these options do? My understanding is this: nospace: No not append a space after a completion even if it's the only one. filenames: Quote shell meta-characters and append a / if the sole completion is a directory dirnames: Has no effect if the compspec generates no matches? So probably at least filenames could be emulated by the completion function, right? Regards, Mika
