[PATCH] ash: perform autocompletion on builtin commands

[Matteo Croce]

it should be implemented in lineedit.c, by replacing ~ to /home/whatever

2014-10-24 17:20 GMT+02:00 John Spencer <maillist-busybox at barfooze.de>:
> Matteo Croce wrote:
>>
>> Refactor read_line_input to accept a list of strings which are
>> added byt the autocompletion suggestions.
>> Let ash pass the builtin command list to read_line_input to enable
>> completion of builtin commands as echo, printf, history, exec, etc.
>
>
> nice. could this mechanism be used to expand ~ to the contents of $HOME
> for autocompletion ? lack of this expansion is currently my major annoyance
> with ash and the reason i still use bash...



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