Re: Unnecessary change to readline-colored-completion-prefix

[Daniël Gerbrand Haasbroek]

Chet Ramey wrote:

> Are you saying that this portion of the original report
>
>>     $ tail -1 dircolors_nodot
>>      readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36
>>
>>      $ dircolors $_
>>      dircolors: dircolors_nodot:63: unrecognized keyword
>> readline-colored-completion-prefix
>
> needed the `*' before the prefix text?
>
> If so, then it's pretty clearly user error, and I can revert the
> change.

Yes, exactly.  (Sorry that I didn't state this more clearly earlier.)

> If you both confirm that, I will revert the change.

I've been using the "*readline-colored-completion-prefix" syntax
without problems on multiple systems for a few years now.  I also
couldn't find any evidence of `dircolors` versions that don't support
this syntax.

Grisha Levit wrote:

> But that's because he did not try the correct form:
>
>     *readline-colored-completion-prefix 0;36

> So I would agree with Daniël, this was user error rather than an issue
> with Readline.

Thank you for helping to clarify my argument.