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class method
Readline.special_prefixes
Readline.special_prefixes → string
ext/readline/readline.c
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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;
}
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.