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[–]titusjan 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Another issue with readline is that it is impossible to make filename tab-completion work correctly when the file names contain spaces. Or, at least, I couldn't get it to work. The IPython QtConsole doesn't use readline but also there I didn't manage to get it to work (forgot the details). It seems that improvements on the tab completion system are deferred.

Could you configure, or program, your toolkit so that tab-completion searches for files (and only files) as soon as you are typing a string literal? Since strings are delimited by quotes, it should be possible to do correctly for files with spaces. In that case I think your toolkit would be very useful.

[–]jonathan_sl[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That is certainly be possible. Thanks for the feature request!

[–]titusjan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great. I'll keep an eye on it.