Chet Ramey wrote: > Are you saying that this portion of the original report > >> $ tail -1 dircolors_nodot >> readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36 >> >> $ dircolors $_ >> dircolors: dircolors_nodot:63: unrecognized keyword >> readline-colored-completion-prefix > > needed the `*' before the prefix text? > > If so, then it's pretty clearly user error, and I can revert the > change.
Yes, exactly. (Sorry that I didn't state this more clearly earlier.) > If you both confirm that, I will revert the change. I've been using the "*readline-colored-completion-prefix" syntax without problems on multiple systems for a few years now. I also couldn't find any evidence of `dircolors` versions that don't support this syntax. Grisha Levit wrote: > But that's because he did not try the correct form: > > *readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36 > So I would agree with Daniël, this was user error rather than an issue > with Readline. Thank you for helping to clarify my argument.
