On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:28:01 GMT, Peter Maydell said:
Also, given that we basically have all the information about accepted switches in the ansp parameter, it would be cool if we could pass that along to readline so tab completion completed commands rather than just filenames. This in particular would mean you'd just want to always have getans() tab complete, because it wouldn't tab-complete filenames unless it was appropriate. That's more work than just calling readline(), though.
Agreed that if we are going to do it, we should do it right.
I would prefer the default to be "use readline if it is present at compile time", rather than "do not use". Otherwise most users (and probably most distro package builders!) will never realise the option is there.
+1
plain old getans(). [Question: when do we want the fancy vs non fancy getans? Maybe there should just be one, and we make getans() do tab completion if we have readline?]
That would be the best approach, I think.
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