Re: double TABs question

[Levente Torok]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, you wrote:
> On 18-Sep-2008, Levente Torok wrote:
> 
> | As I see readline has some progamability in this aspect too.
> | http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#IDX78
> | I am not sure if it cannot be solved with this.
> 
> Precisely what function are you referring to?
> How do you propose to use it?

When I enter
                a=3
octave says
Display all 3933 possibilities? (y or n)
and eats the rest of the sentence

In matlab: 

No completions found.
>> a=3

a =

     3

The important thing here is this, maybe I get messages that "No completions 
found" but I can
still copy and paste codes from an editor and it will run. While in octave it 
won't.
So I am proposing to alter the function of TABTAB.
With this amount of functions in the system, a question like "Display all 3933 
possibilites?" make not much sense anyway.

Ideally, when nothing is entered, TABTAB should be taken as \t\t. If something 
has already been written then 
the original meaning (listing the possible options beginning with the text 
already entered) would be perfect. 
I don't know if it possible.

Bests,
Lev

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