problems completing filenames that contain hyphens about rlwrap HOT 2 CLOSED

This issue comes up every now and then. By default, rlwrap considers ' and - (apostrophe and hyphen) word-breaking, which means that it will not consider filenames that contain those characters as valid completions (you will observe something like that in bash or zsh when you encounter filenames with spaces - the completer wil refuse to "jump over" the spaces).

Calling rlwrap with --break-chars="" (or simpler: -b '') will convince it that only whitespace is word-breaking, after which it should behave as you expect.

All this poses two questions:

• should the manpage be clearer on this?
• should rlwrap use the same word-breakers for filename completion as it does for keyword completion?

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This solves the problem, indeed. Using -b \' also solves the issue mentioned in this comment on stackoverflow.

If the description of the -c option in the manpage mentioned other options (like -b) that can affect its behavior, then yes, it would save me from falling for this one.

As for the second question, I can't really say as I'm not aware what word-breaking rules are used for keyword completion.

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