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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> | 2021-02-12 20:04:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-02-12 20:04:46 (GMT) |
| commit | fd053fdd39fbdf114b4218ea4309666bafa95788 (patch) | |
| tree | 360827543b553179e7d8526506106076071874d8 /Doc/library/readline.rst | |
| parent | 5ec7d535581bc99918e032891167a96abd224ed6 (diff) | |
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bpo-43172: readline now passes its tests when built against libedit (GH-24499)
bpo-43172: readline now passes its tests when built against libedit.
Existing irreconcilable API differences remain in readline.get_begidx
and readline.get_endidx behavior based on libreadline vs libedit use.
A note about that has been documented.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst index eae0a6d..3ff6488 100644 --- a/Doc/library/readline.rst +++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst @@ -258,7 +258,9 @@ with a custom completer, a different set of word delimiters should be set. Get the beginning or ending index of the completion scope. These indexes are the *start* and *end* arguments passed to the :c:data:`rl_attempted_completion_function` callback of the - underlying library. + underlying library. The values may be different in the same + input editing scenario based on the underlying C readline implemtation. + Ex: libedit is known to behave differently than libreadline. .. function:: set_completer_delims(string) |