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Custom Completers
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   Typically, a program that reads commands from the user has a way of
disambiguating commands and data.  If your program is one of these, then
it can provide completion for commands, data, or both.  The following
sections describe how your program and Readline cooperate to provide
this service.

How Completing Works

The logic used to do completion.

Completion Functions

Functions provided by Readline.

Completion Variables

Variables which control completion.

A Short Completion Example

An example of writing completer subroutines.