Package: rlwrap Version: 0.37-1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream When the word completion list contains two valid words, one of which is a prefix of another, typing <tab> completes the longer word, skipping over the shorter.
Discovered while following the instructions at [0] for configuring rlwrap with clojure. The completion list contains "vec", "vector", and "vector?" for example. Entering "ve<tab><tab><tab>" yields "vector?" as the only completion, consuming the other valid word completions. A simpler artificial example: $ cat words.txt i id ide idea ideas $ rlwrap -f words.txt cat Repeatedly pressing <tab> will add one letter at a time until "ideas" is produced, same for the next word, and so on. Desired behavior with user input of "id<tab><tab><tab><tab>..." is to display "id ide idea ideas" all as possible completions. [0] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Clojure_Programming/Getting_Started -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.3 APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages rlwrap depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-5 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries rlwrap recommends no packages. rlwrap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
