gawk: Readline Support
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1 14.4 Readline Support
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1 If 'gawk' is compiled with the GNU Readline library
1 (http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html), you can
1 take advantage of that library's command completion and history
1 expansion features. The following types of completion are available:
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1 Command completion
1 Command names.
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1 Source file name completion
1 Source file names. Relevant commands are 'break', 'clear', 'list',
1 'tbreak', and 'until'.
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1 Argument completion
1 Non-numeric arguments to a command. Relevant commands are 'enable'
1 and 'info'.
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1 Variable name completion
1 Global variable names, and function arguments in the current
1 context if the program is running. Relevant commands are
1 'display', 'print', 'set', and 'watch'.
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