Morning all !!

I'v written a shell program (a perl script that opens a shell and the user can explore menus there). I'm currently using Term::ReadLine for tab completion of commands in the shell. The tab completion is using a predefined array of words to be completed as the module requires, I define it as follows in the begining of my script: 
my $term = new Term::ReadLine 'Command Line Interface';
my $attribs = $term->Attribs;
$attribs->{completion_entry_function} = $attribs->{'list_completion_fu
+nction'};
$attribs->{completion_word} = \@commands;   # array of supported comma
+nds

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My problem is that my prompt is built like a tree, a user can get down on the tree and his promp is changes accordingly, for example:
Main>
Main> nfs    # user enters the nfs menu
Main/NFS>    # new prompt

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The thing is that the array of words to be completed is containg (at the moment) all the commands that can be typed in my shell, no matter what menu the user is in, so pressing tab twice on any menu will give the list of all word in the array and not only the relevant for each menu.
is there a way to handle this more efficiently or I'll have to maintain commands array for each menu I'm in?

Hotshot

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