I think that rl_insert_text and friends can probably only be used from
readline callback functions. So in principle maybe you could make it
work by having an rl_startup_hook that injects text if there is any
to inject. There would remain the issues of (a) is it portable across
a wide range of readline and libedit versions, (b) will the prompting
behavior be nice, and (c) do we really want this to work fundamentally
differently when readline is turned off?
I thought maybe you were going to work on this right away, but since
you haven't, I went ahead and pushed what I had. There's certainly
plenty of time to reconsider if you find a better answer.
Indeeed.
I started to play with the startup hook, it kind of worked but not exactly
as I wished, and I do not have much time available this round.
--
Fabien.
