[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44095] readline configuration - tab autocompletion of paths

[Lachlan Andrew]

Follow-up Comment #20, bug #44095 (project octave):

The attached changeset (bug_44095.v2.cset) is cleaner than the previous on. 
It uses a hook in gnu readline to change the word delimiters if the last part
of the command line (excluding what follows a (back)slash) is a valid
directory.

Its main advantage over the previous patch is that it gets auto-quoting right.
 Its main disadvantage is that the existence of a file or directory can
inhibit completion of a variable.

It also results in a trailing '/' on Windows, like the status quo, whereas the
previous patch fixed that.  I think that using  rl_directory_completion_hook 
will be a cleaner way to fix that.

(file #35788)
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