Thomas Dickey wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 02:01:47AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
 |> Thomas Dickey wrote in
 |>  <[email protected]>:
 |>|On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 02:50:43PM -0700, Chime Hart wrote:
 |>|> Hi All: An only mention of this which I found in searching was my \
 |>|> own 2022 
 |>|> post. I am `certainly hoping-and-requesting this option can be added \
 |>|> to LYNX, 
 |>|> as I use a Capital C to change directories `quite a number of times \
 |>|> daily
 |>|> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2022-04/msg00000.html
 |>|> Since I am only a user-and-not a programmer, I have no idea if it \
 |>|> is possible 
 |>|> to ajust this, or if there are local steps I can take on this end? \
 |>|> Thanks so 
 |>|> much in advance
 |>|
 |>|tab-completion for the directory-names would require programming work,
 |>|as mentioned in
 |>|
 |>|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lynx-dev/2005-01/msg00010.html
 |> 
 |> There is a "rlwrap" thing that can be used to enwrap many programs
 |> with the readline library.  I would not know in how far this
 |> works for a program that fully manages the terminal (lynx here
 |> links against ncurses), but once a user pointed another user who
 |> asked for line editor capabilities of the MUA i maintain to that;
 |
 |rlwrap can help with command-history (actually not with lynx, because
 |it already does _that_), but not with tab-completion (because the
 |relevant data isn't available to rlwrap).

Have you tried it?
If i recall correctly (over a decade, i think in 2015 i wrote the
line editor), if you hit tab, it "completes like grazy".
And i looked and it was about directory changing, and if we talk
about CWD, and he wants to change that, i would presume readline
then goes.
(Now out for cycling.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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