My apologies for the late reply---had to move to a different thing. That was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot.
Cheers, Antonio On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/12/16 3:33 AM, Antonio Ceballos wrote: > > I want to use the readline library in a command-line C program, and I > want > > custom autocomplete. The program is always waiting for user input and it > > accepts some commands. Tab-based autocomplete is working fine for my > > commands, but I have not been able to get rid of file name completion. > > Hence, if the user types a dot or the first two letters of an existing > > file, file name completion is performed. Could you please tell me how to > > disable file name autocomplete while keeping my custom autocomplete? > > @deftypevar int rl_attempted_completion_over > If an application-specific completion function assigned to > @code{rl_attempted_completion_function} sets this variable to a non-zero > value, Readline will not perform its default filename completion even > if the application's completion function returns no matches. > It should be set only by an application's completion function. > @end deftypeva > > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [email protected] > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
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