And where did you find the documentation that it should? Not in the R
sources AFAICS ....
The readline documentation suggests that applications should set their
name by rl_readline_name. That will be done and documented as from R
2.12.0, but the application name is 'R', not 'RCustomCompletion'
--
and the only example in any of the postings you cite is nothing to do
with completion.
On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> This issue has been brought at least twice in R-help:
Which was of course the wrong list.
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-September/173828.html
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-May/197360.html
>
> Looking at the source in src/unix/sys-std.c, it seems that the definition
> of rl_readline_name as "RCustomCompletion" is made after the
readline
> library has been initialized and the ~/.inputrc file has been read.
> Typing "C-x C-r" at the R prompt makes the definitions under
"$if
> RCustomCompletion" work, but this is not what one expects the R users
to
> do.
>
> Attached below is the trivial patch that seems to fix the problem.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rafael Laboissiere
>
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