how to determine an 'open' string?

[Michael Hudson]

holger krekel <pyth at devel.trillke.net> writes:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> > [me]
> > > [you]
> > > > 
> > > > You're going to have fun with strings containing spaces aren't you?
> > > 
> > > huh? not that i know of :-)
> > 
> > Because of the way readline works.  It calls the completer function
> > with the word stem, so if the buffer looks like
> > 
> > >>> "a very long string
> >                        ^
> > when you hit TAB the completer will get sent just "string" (I think).
> 
> Actually what you get is everything from the last 'delimiter'. 
> Delimiters are set via readline.set_completer_delims(delims_str).

Ah yes.  Does that actually work?  I seem to remember a report of it
not working properly, but can't find it now...

Cheers,
M.

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