Re: Readline completion example?

> * Pascal Bourguignon <[email protected]> [2017-02-18 23:35:27 +0100]:
>
> It looks like rl_completion_entry_function is not mentionned in
> clisp/modules/readline/readline.lisp and that no variable
> readline:completion-entry-function is present in the readline package.
>
> Indeed, I don’t see how to specify the completions with the API defined
> in readline.lisp Perhaps it correspond to an older readline library
> version that didn’t have it? Perhaps the mechanism is preempted by
> clisp, since we can see that in the terminal, clisp has completion on
> the the symbol names (operators, variables), and shows the documentation
> of the operator when they are complete.

exporting this functionality would interfere with the normal clisp repl.
if the user would set readline:completion-entry-function, there
would be no way to reset it back to factory settings.


> It would be nice to provide a patch to this sys::completion with a hook
> so that applications may provide their own completions. (I would make it
> a per-stream hook).

good idea!
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