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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