Does anyone here have some in-depth knowledge of Term::ReadLine::Gnu? For the most part, it works, but when I get into more complicated behavior tuning I have nowhere to turn. The documentation is pretty shoddy, not very verbose with descriptions.

Basically everything is working fine, except for fact that when I have several selections to choose from that all begin with the same word, the tab-completion just doesn't seem to work right. For example:

Let's say the valid tab-completion options are:

Foo Bar 001
Foo Bar 002
Foo Bar Biz Baz
Foo Bar 004

When I am at the readline prompt and hit tab, immediately the word "Foo Bar " comes up. Ok, thats fine since all my options start with "Foo Bar", however, then I hit tab again and another "Foo Bar " is added. And so on everytime I hit tab "Foo Bar " is added.

The correct behavior (i.e. the bash behavior) would be to put "Foo Bar " on the prompt after the first tab, but then with subsequent ones, list the options again. If I added a 0 to it: "Foo Bar 0"<tab> that would just display entries 1,2 and 4. And so on.

Right now I can't get that behavior. So really, the tab-completion doesn't complete at all, if I keep hitting tab it'll just fill the prompt with "Foo Bar" over and over.

How can I get this to behave exactly (or closer) to the bash prompt behavior?

Thanks for any help.

- Nick

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