method

special_prefixes

v2_6_3 - Show latest stable - Class: Readline

special_prefixes()

public

Gets the list of characters that are word break characters, but should be left in text when it is passed to the completion function.

See GNU Readline’s rl_special_prefixes variable.

Raises NotImplementedError if the using readline library does not support.

static VALUE
readline_s_get_special_prefixes(VALUE self)
{
    VALUE str;
    if (rl_special_prefixes == NULL) return Qnil;
    str = rb_ivar_get(mReadline, id_special_prefixes);
    if (!NIL_P(str)) {
        str = rb_str_dup_frozen(str);
        rb_obj_reveal(str, rb_cString);
    }
    return str;
}

special_prefixes

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