On 31/07/13 17:14, Larry Hastings wrote:

> IMO the optimal solution is that tab preceded by only whitespace indents, and tab preceded by any non-whitespace character attempts to complete.  Can we goad readline into behaving this way?

Yes we can. Attached are a pair of lightweight modules I've used for this for the last 3-4 years, and it works fine in Python 2.4 through 3.3. I put something like this in my startup.py:

import completer
import history
history = history.History()
completer = completer.Completer(
         bindings=(r'"\C-xo": overwrite-mode',
                   r'"\C-xd": dump-functions',
                  ))

Originally they were in a single class, but I was persuaded that it was cleaner to separate them.