2012-11-06 Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
[binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / completer.c
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1 /* Line completion stuff for GDB, the GNU debugger.
2 Copyright (C) 2000-2001, 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of GDB.
6 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
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11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
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17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19 #include "defs.h"
20 #include "symtab.h"
21 #include "gdbtypes.h"
22 #include "expression.h"
23 #include "filenames.h" /* For DOSish file names. */
24 #include "language.h"
25 #include "gdb_assert.h"
26 #include "exceptions.h"
27 #include "gdb_signals.h"
29 #include "cli/cli-decode.h"
31 /* FIXME: This is needed because of lookup_cmd_1 (). We should be
32 calling a hook instead so we eliminate the CLI dependency. */
33 #include "gdbcmd.h"
35 /* Needed for rl_completer_word_break_characters() and for
36 rl_filename_completion_function. */
37 #include "readline/readline.h"
39 /* readline defines this. */
40 #undef savestring
42 #include "completer.h"
44 /* Prototypes for local functions. */
45 static
46 char *line_completion_function (const char *text, int matches,
47 char *line_buffer,
48 int point);
50 /* readline uses the word breaks for two things:
51 (1) In figuring out where to point the TEXT parameter to the
52 rl_completion_entry_function. Since we don't use TEXT for much,
53 it doesn't matter a lot what the word breaks are for this purpose,
54 but it does affect how much stuff M-? lists.
55 (2) If one of the matches contains a word break character, readline
56 will quote it. That's why we switch between
57 current_language->la_word_break_characters() and
58 gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters. I'm not sure when
59 we need this behavior (perhaps for funky characters in C++
60 symbols?). */
62 /* Variables which are necessary for fancy command line editing. */
64 /* When completing on command names, we remove '-' from the list of
65 word break characters, since we use it in command names. If the
66 readline library sees one in any of the current completion strings,
67 it thinks that the string needs to be quoted and automatically
68 supplies a leading quote. */
69 static char *gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters =
70 " \t\n!@#$%^&*()+=|~`}{[]\"';:?/>.<,";
72 /* When completing on file names, we remove from the list of word
73 break characters any characters that are commonly used in file
74 names, such as '-', '+', '~', etc. Otherwise, readline displays
75 incorrect completion candidates. */
76 #ifdef HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM
77 /* MS-DOS and MS-Windows use colon as part of the drive spec, and most
78 programs support @foo style response files. */
79 static char *gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters = " \t\n*|\"';?><@";
80 #else
81 static char *gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters = " \t\n*|\"';:?><";
82 #endif
84 /* Characters that can be used to quote completion strings. Note that
85 we can't include '"' because the gdb C parser treats such quoted
86 sequences as strings. */
87 static char *gdb_completer_quote_characters = "'";
89 /* Accessor for some completer data that may interest other files. */
91 char *
92 get_gdb_completer_quote_characters (void)
94 return gdb_completer_quote_characters;
97 /* Line completion interface function for readline. */
99 char *
100 readline_line_completion_function (const char *text, int matches)
102 return line_completion_function (text, matches,
103 rl_line_buffer, rl_point);
106 /* This can be used for functions which don't want to complete on
107 symbols but don't want to complete on anything else either. */
108 VEC (char_ptr) *
109 noop_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
110 char *text, char *prefix)
112 return NULL;
115 /* Complete on filenames. */
116 VEC (char_ptr) *
117 filename_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
118 char *text, char *word)
120 int subsequent_name;
121 VEC (char_ptr) *return_val = NULL;
123 subsequent_name = 0;
124 while (1)
126 char *p, *q;
128 p = rl_filename_completion_function (text, subsequent_name);
129 if (p == NULL)
130 break;
131 /* We need to set subsequent_name to a non-zero value before the
132 continue line below, because otherwise, if the first file
133 seen by GDB is a backup file whose name ends in a `~', we
134 will loop indefinitely. */
135 subsequent_name = 1;
136 /* Like emacs, don't complete on old versions. Especially
137 useful in the "source" command. */
138 if (p[strlen (p) - 1] == '~')
140 xfree (p);
141 continue;
144 if (word == text)
145 /* Return exactly p. */
146 q = p;
147 else if (word > text)
149 /* Return some portion of p. */
150 q = xmalloc (strlen (p) + 5);
151 strcpy (q, p + (word - text));
152 xfree (p);
154 else
156 /* Return some of TEXT plus p. */
157 q = xmalloc (strlen (p) + (text - word) + 5);
158 strncpy (q, word, text - word);
159 q[text - word] = '\0';
160 strcat (q, p);
161 xfree (p);
163 VEC_safe_push (char_ptr, return_val, q);
165 #if 0
166 /* There is no way to do this just long enough to affect quote
167 inserting without also affecting the next completion. This
168 should be fixed in readline. FIXME. */
169 /* Ensure that readline does the right thing
170 with respect to inserting quotes. */
171 rl_completer_word_break_characters = "";
172 #endif
173 return return_val;
176 /* Complete on locations, which might be of two possible forms:
178 file:line
180 symbol+offset
182 This is intended to be used in commands that set breakpoints
183 etc. */
185 VEC (char_ptr) *
186 location_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
187 char *text, char *word)
189 int n_syms, n_files, ix;
190 VEC (char_ptr) *fn_list = NULL;
191 VEC (char_ptr) *list = NULL;
192 char *p;
193 int quote_found = 0;
194 int quoted = *text == '\'' || *text == '"';
195 int quote_char = '\0';
196 char *colon = NULL;
197 char *file_to_match = NULL;
198 char *symbol_start = text;
199 char *orig_text = text;
200 size_t text_len;
202 /* Do we have an unquoted colon, as in "break foo.c::bar"? */
203 for (p = text; *p != '\0'; ++p)
205 if (*p == '\\' && p[1] == '\'')
206 p++;
207 else if (*p == '\'' || *p == '"')
209 quote_found = *p;
210 quote_char = *p++;
211 while (*p != '\0' && *p != quote_found)
213 if (*p == '\\' && p[1] == quote_found)
214 p++;
215 p++;
218 if (*p == quote_found)
219 quote_found = 0;
220 else
221 break; /* Hit the end of text. */
223 #if HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM
224 /* If we have a DOS-style absolute file name at the beginning of
225 TEXT, and the colon after the drive letter is the only colon
226 we found, pretend the colon is not there. */
227 else if (p < text + 3 && *p == ':' && p == text + 1 + quoted)
229 #endif
230 else if (*p == ':' && !colon)
232 colon = p;
233 symbol_start = p + 1;
235 else if (strchr (current_language->la_word_break_characters(), *p))
236 symbol_start = p + 1;
239 if (quoted)
240 text++;
241 text_len = strlen (text);
243 /* Where is the file name? */
244 if (colon)
246 char *s;
248 file_to_match = (char *) xmalloc (colon - text + 1);
249 strncpy (file_to_match, text, colon - text + 1);
250 /* Remove trailing colons and quotes from the file name. */
251 for (s = file_to_match + (colon - text);
252 s > file_to_match;
253 s--)
254 if (*s == ':' || *s == quote_char)
255 *s = '\0';
257 /* If the text includes a colon, they want completion only on a
258 symbol name after the colon. Otherwise, we need to complete on
259 symbols as well as on files. */
260 if (colon)
262 list = make_file_symbol_completion_list (symbol_start, word,
263 file_to_match);
264 xfree (file_to_match);
266 else
268 list = make_symbol_completion_list (symbol_start, word);
269 /* If text includes characters which cannot appear in a file
270 name, they cannot be asking for completion on files. */
271 if (strcspn (text,
272 gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters) == text_len)
273 fn_list = make_source_files_completion_list (text, text);
276 n_syms = VEC_length (char_ptr, list);
277 n_files = VEC_length (char_ptr, fn_list);
279 /* Catenate fn_list[] onto the end of list[]. */
280 if (!n_syms)
282 VEC_free (char_ptr, list); /* Paranoia. */
283 list = fn_list;
284 fn_list = NULL;
286 else
288 for (ix = 0; VEC_iterate (char_ptr, fn_list, ix, p); ++ix)
289 VEC_safe_push (char_ptr, list, p);
290 VEC_free (char_ptr, fn_list);
293 if (n_syms && n_files)
295 /* Nothing. */
297 else if (n_files)
299 /* If we only have file names as possible completion, we should
300 bring them in sync with what rl_complete expects. The
301 problem is that if the user types "break /foo/b TAB", and the
302 possible completions are "/foo/bar" and "/foo/baz"
303 rl_complete expects us to return "bar" and "baz", without the
304 leading directories, as possible completions, because `word'
305 starts at the "b". But we ignore the value of `word' when we
306 call make_source_files_completion_list above (because that
307 would not DTRT when the completion results in both symbols
308 and file names), so make_source_files_completion_list returns
309 the full "/foo/bar" and "/foo/baz" strings. This produces
310 wrong results when, e.g., there's only one possible
311 completion, because rl_complete will prepend "/foo/" to each
312 candidate completion. The loop below removes that leading
313 part. */
314 for (ix = 0; VEC_iterate (char_ptr, list, ix, p); ++ix)
316 memmove (p, p + (word - text),
317 strlen (p) + 1 - (word - text));
320 else if (!n_syms)
322 /* No completions at all. As the final resort, try completing
323 on the entire text as a symbol. */
324 list = make_symbol_completion_list (orig_text, word);
327 return list;
330 /* Helper for expression_completer which recursively counts the number
331 of named fields and methods in a structure or union type. */
332 static int
333 count_struct_fields (struct type *type)
335 int i, result = 0;
337 CHECK_TYPEDEF (type);
338 for (i = 0; i < TYPE_NFIELDS (type); ++i)
340 if (i < TYPE_N_BASECLASSES (type))
341 result += count_struct_fields (TYPE_BASECLASS (type, i));
342 else if (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i))
344 if (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i)[0] != '\0')
345 ++result;
346 else if (TYPE_CODE (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i)) == TYPE_CODE_UNION)
348 /* Recurse into anonymous unions. */
349 result += count_struct_fields (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i));
354 for (i = TYPE_NFN_FIELDS (type) - 1; i >= 0; --i)
356 if (TYPE_FN_FIELDLIST_NAME (type, i))
357 ++result;
360 return result;
363 /* Helper for expression_completer which recursively adds field and
364 method names from TYPE, a struct or union type, to the array
365 OUTPUT. */
366 static void
367 add_struct_fields (struct type *type, VEC (char_ptr) **output,
368 char *fieldname, int namelen)
370 int i;
371 int computed_type_name = 0;
372 const char *type_name = NULL;
374 CHECK_TYPEDEF (type);
375 for (i = 0; i < TYPE_NFIELDS (type); ++i)
377 if (i < TYPE_N_BASECLASSES (type))
378 add_struct_fields (TYPE_BASECLASS (type, i),
379 output, fieldname, namelen);
380 else if (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i))
382 if (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i)[0] != '\0')
384 if (! strncmp (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i),
385 fieldname, namelen))
386 VEC_safe_push (char_ptr, *output,
387 xstrdup (TYPE_FIELD_NAME (type, i)));
389 else if (TYPE_CODE (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i)) == TYPE_CODE_UNION)
391 /* Recurse into anonymous unions. */
392 add_struct_fields (TYPE_FIELD_TYPE (type, i),
393 output, fieldname, namelen);
398 for (i = TYPE_NFN_FIELDS (type) - 1; i >= 0; --i)
400 const char *name = TYPE_FN_FIELDLIST_NAME (type, i);
402 if (name && ! strncmp (name, fieldname, namelen))
404 if (!computed_type_name)
406 type_name = type_name_no_tag (type);
407 computed_type_name = 1;
409 /* Omit constructors from the completion list. */
410 if (!type_name || strcmp (type_name, name))
411 VEC_safe_push (char_ptr, *output, xstrdup (name));
416 /* Complete on expressions. Often this means completing on symbol
417 names, but some language parsers also have support for completing
418 field names. */
419 VEC (char_ptr) *
420 expression_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
421 char *text, char *word)
423 struct type *type = NULL;
424 char *fieldname, *p;
425 volatile struct gdb_exception except;
427 /* Perform a tentative parse of the expression, to see whether a
428 field completion is required. */
429 fieldname = NULL;
430 TRY_CATCH (except, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
432 type = parse_field_expression (text, &fieldname);
434 if (except.reason < 0)
435 return NULL;
436 if (fieldname && type)
438 for (;;)
440 CHECK_TYPEDEF (type);
441 if (TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_PTR
442 && TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_REF)
443 break;
444 type = TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type);
447 if (TYPE_CODE (type) == TYPE_CODE_UNION
448 || TYPE_CODE (type) == TYPE_CODE_STRUCT)
450 int alloc = count_struct_fields (type);
451 int flen = strlen (fieldname);
452 VEC (char_ptr) *result = NULL;
454 add_struct_fields (type, &result, fieldname, flen);
455 xfree (fieldname);
456 return result;
459 xfree (fieldname);
461 /* Commands which complete on locations want to see the entire
462 argument. */
463 for (p = word;
464 p > text && p[-1] != ' ' && p[-1] != '\t';
465 p--)
468 /* Not ideal but it is what we used to do before... */
469 return location_completer (ignore, p, word);
472 /* Here are some useful test cases for completion. FIXME: These
473 should be put in the test suite. They should be tested with both
474 M-? and TAB.
476 "show output-" "radix"
477 "show output" "-radix"
478 "p" ambiguous (commands starting with p--path, print, printf, etc.)
479 "p " ambiguous (all symbols)
480 "info t foo" no completions
481 "info t " no completions
482 "info t" ambiguous ("info target", "info terminal", etc.)
483 "info ajksdlfk" no completions
484 "info ajksdlfk " no completions
485 "info" " "
486 "info " ambiguous (all info commands)
487 "p \"a" no completions (string constant)
488 "p 'a" ambiguous (all symbols starting with a)
489 "p b-a" ambiguous (all symbols starting with a)
490 "p b-" ambiguous (all symbols)
491 "file Make" "file" (word break hard to screw up here)
492 "file ../gdb.stabs/we" "ird" (needs to not break word at slash)
495 typedef enum
497 handle_brkchars,
498 handle_completions,
499 handle_help
501 complete_line_internal_reason;
504 /* Internal function used to handle completions.
507 TEXT is the caller's idea of the "word" we are looking at.
509 LINE_BUFFER is available to be looked at; it contains the entire
510 text of the line. POINT is the offset in that line of the cursor.
511 You should pretend that the line ends at POINT.
513 REASON is of type complete_line_internal_reason.
515 If REASON is handle_brkchars:
516 Preliminary phase, called by gdb_completion_word_break_characters
517 function, is used to determine the correct set of chars that are
518 word delimiters depending on the current command in line_buffer.
519 No completion list should be generated; the return value should be
520 NULL. This is checked by an assertion in that function.
522 If REASON is handle_completions:
523 Main phase, called by complete_line function, is used to get the list
524 of posible completions.
526 If REASON is handle_help:
527 Special case when completing a 'help' command. In this case,
528 once sub-command completions are exhausted, we simply return NULL.
531 static VEC (char_ptr) *
532 complete_line_internal (const char *text,
533 char *line_buffer, int point,
534 complete_line_internal_reason reason)
536 VEC (char_ptr) *list = NULL;
537 char *tmp_command, *p;
538 /* Pointer within tmp_command which corresponds to text. */
539 char *word;
540 struct cmd_list_element *c, *result_list;
542 /* Choose the default set of word break characters to break
543 completions. If we later find out that we are doing completions
544 on command strings (as opposed to strings supplied by the
545 individual command completer functions, which can be any string)
546 then we will switch to the special word break set for command
547 strings, which leaves out the '-' character used in some
548 commands. */
549 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
550 current_language->la_word_break_characters();
552 /* Decide whether to complete on a list of gdb commands or on
553 symbols. */
554 tmp_command = (char *) alloca (point + 1);
555 p = tmp_command;
557 strncpy (tmp_command, line_buffer, point);
558 tmp_command[point] = '\0';
559 /* Since text always contains some number of characters leading up
560 to point, we can find the equivalent position in tmp_command
561 by subtracting that many characters from the end of tmp_command. */
562 word = tmp_command + point - strlen (text);
564 if (point == 0)
566 /* An empty line we want to consider ambiguous; that is, it
567 could be any command. */
568 c = CMD_LIST_AMBIGUOUS;
569 result_list = 0;
571 else
573 c = lookup_cmd_1 (&p, cmdlist, &result_list, 1);
576 /* Move p up to the next interesting thing. */
577 while (*p == ' ' || *p == '\t')
579 p++;
582 if (!c)
584 /* It is an unrecognized command. So there are no
585 possible completions. */
586 list = NULL;
588 else if (c == CMD_LIST_AMBIGUOUS)
590 char *q;
592 /* lookup_cmd_1 advances p up to the first ambiguous thing, but
593 doesn't advance over that thing itself. Do so now. */
594 q = p;
595 while (*q && (isalnum (*q) || *q == '-' || *q == '_'))
596 ++q;
597 if (q != tmp_command + point)
599 /* There is something beyond the ambiguous
600 command, so there are no possible completions. For
601 example, "info t " or "info t foo" does not complete
602 to anything, because "info t" can be "info target" or
603 "info terminal". */
604 list = NULL;
606 else
608 /* We're trying to complete on the command which was ambiguous.
609 This we can deal with. */
610 if (result_list)
612 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
613 list = complete_on_cmdlist (*result_list->prefixlist, p,
614 word);
616 else
618 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
619 list = complete_on_cmdlist (cmdlist, p, word);
621 /* Ensure that readline does the right thing with respect to
622 inserting quotes. */
623 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
624 gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters;
627 else
629 /* We've recognized a full command. */
631 if (p == tmp_command + point)
633 /* There is no non-whitespace in the line beyond the
634 command. */
636 if (p[-1] == ' ' || p[-1] == '\t')
638 /* The command is followed by whitespace; we need to
639 complete on whatever comes after command. */
640 if (c->prefixlist)
642 /* It is a prefix command; what comes after it is
643 a subcommand (e.g. "info "). */
644 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
645 list = complete_on_cmdlist (*c->prefixlist, p, word);
647 /* Ensure that readline does the right thing
648 with respect to inserting quotes. */
649 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
650 gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters;
652 else if (reason == handle_help)
653 list = NULL;
654 else if (c->enums)
656 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
657 list = complete_on_enum (c->enums, p, word);
658 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
659 gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters;
661 else
663 /* It is a normal command; what comes after it is
664 completed by the command's completer function. */
665 if (c->completer == filename_completer)
667 /* Many commands which want to complete on
668 file names accept several file names, as
669 in "run foo bar >>baz". So we don't want
670 to complete the entire text after the
671 command, just the last word. To this
672 end, we need to find the beginning of the
673 file name by starting at `word' and going
674 backwards. */
675 for (p = word;
676 p > tmp_command
677 && strchr (gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters, p[-1]) == NULL;
678 p--)
680 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
681 gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters;
683 else if (c->completer == location_completer)
685 /* Commands which complete on locations want to
686 see the entire argument. */
687 for (p = word;
688 p > tmp_command
689 && p[-1] != ' ' && p[-1] != '\t';
690 p--)
693 if (reason != handle_brkchars && c->completer != NULL)
694 list = (*c->completer) (c, p, word);
697 else
699 /* The command is not followed by whitespace; we need to
700 complete on the command itself, e.g. "p" which is a
701 command itself but also can complete to "print", "ptype"
702 etc. */
703 char *q;
705 /* Find the command we are completing on. */
706 q = p;
707 while (q > tmp_command)
709 if (isalnum (q[-1]) || q[-1] == '-' || q[-1] == '_')
710 --q;
711 else
712 break;
715 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
716 list = complete_on_cmdlist (result_list, q, word);
718 /* Ensure that readline does the right thing
719 with respect to inserting quotes. */
720 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
721 gdb_completer_command_word_break_characters;
724 else if (reason == handle_help)
725 list = NULL;
726 else
728 /* There is non-whitespace beyond the command. */
730 if (c->prefixlist && !c->allow_unknown)
732 /* It is an unrecognized subcommand of a prefix command,
733 e.g. "info adsfkdj". */
734 list = NULL;
736 else if (c->enums)
738 if (reason != handle_brkchars)
739 list = complete_on_enum (c->enums, p, word);
741 else
743 /* It is a normal command. */
744 if (c->completer == filename_completer)
746 /* See the commentary above about the specifics
747 of file-name completion. */
748 for (p = word;
749 p > tmp_command
750 && strchr (gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters,
751 p[-1]) == NULL;
752 p--)
754 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
755 gdb_completer_file_name_break_characters;
757 else if (c->completer == location_completer)
759 for (p = word;
760 p > tmp_command
761 && p[-1] != ' ' && p[-1] != '\t';
762 p--)
765 if (reason != handle_brkchars && c->completer != NULL)
766 list = (*c->completer) (c, p, word);
771 return list;
773 /* Generate completions all at once. Returns a vector of strings.
774 Each element is allocated with xmalloc. It can also return NULL if
775 there are no completions.
777 TEXT is the caller's idea of the "word" we are looking at.
779 LINE_BUFFER is available to be looked at; it contains the entire
780 text of the line.
782 POINT is the offset in that line of the cursor. You
783 should pretend that the line ends at POINT. */
785 VEC (char_ptr) *
786 complete_line (const char *text, char *line_buffer, int point)
788 return complete_line_internal (text, line_buffer,
789 point, handle_completions);
792 /* Complete on command names. Used by "help". */
793 VEC (char_ptr) *
794 command_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
795 char *text, char *word)
797 return complete_line_internal (word, text,
798 strlen (text), handle_help);
801 /* Complete on signals. */
803 VEC (char_ptr) *
804 signal_completer (struct cmd_list_element *ignore,
805 char *text, char *word)
807 int i;
808 VEC (char_ptr) *return_val = NULL;
809 size_t len = strlen (word);
810 enum gdb_signal signum;
811 const char *signame;
813 for (signum = GDB_SIGNAL_FIRST; signum != GDB_SIGNAL_LAST; ++signum)
815 /* Can't handle this, so skip it. */
816 if (signum == GDB_SIGNAL_0)
817 continue;
819 signame = gdb_signal_to_name (signum);
821 /* Ignore the unknown signal case. */
822 if (!signame || strcmp (signame, "?") == 0)
823 continue;
825 if (strncasecmp (signame, word, len) == 0)
826 VEC_safe_push (char_ptr, return_val, xstrdup (signame));
829 return return_val;
832 /* Get the list of chars that are considered as word breaks
833 for the current command. */
835 char *
836 gdb_completion_word_break_characters (void)
838 VEC (char_ptr) *list;
840 list = complete_line_internal (rl_line_buffer, rl_line_buffer, rl_point,
841 handle_brkchars);
842 gdb_assert (list == NULL);
843 return rl_completer_word_break_characters;
846 /* Generate completions one by one for the completer. Each time we
847 are called return another potential completion to the caller.
848 line_completion just completes on commands or passes the buck to
849 the command's completer function, the stuff specific to symbol
850 completion is in make_symbol_completion_list.
852 TEXT is the caller's idea of the "word" we are looking at.
854 MATCHES is the number of matches that have currently been collected
855 from calling this completion function. When zero, then we need to
856 initialize, otherwise the initialization has already taken place
857 and we can just return the next potential completion string.
859 LINE_BUFFER is available to be looked at; it contains the entire
860 text of the line. POINT is the offset in that line of the cursor.
861 You should pretend that the line ends at POINT.
863 Returns NULL if there are no more completions, else a pointer to a
864 string which is a possible completion, it is the caller's
865 responsibility to free the string. */
867 static char *
868 line_completion_function (const char *text, int matches,
869 char *line_buffer, int point)
871 static VEC (char_ptr) *list = NULL; /* Cache of completions. */
872 static int index; /* Next cached completion. */
873 char *output = NULL;
875 if (matches == 0)
877 /* The caller is beginning to accumulate a new set of
878 completions, so we need to find all of them now, and cache
879 them for returning one at a time on future calls. */
881 if (list)
883 /* Free the storage used by LIST, but not by the strings
884 inside. This is because rl_complete_internal () frees
885 the strings. As complete_line may abort by calling
886 `error' clear LIST now. */
887 VEC_free (char_ptr, list);
889 index = 0;
890 list = complete_line (text, line_buffer, point);
893 /* If we found a list of potential completions during initialization
894 then dole them out one at a time. After returning the last one,
895 return NULL (and continue to do so) each time we are called after
896 that, until a new list is available. */
898 if (list)
900 if (index < VEC_length (char_ptr, list))
902 output = VEC_index (char_ptr, list, index);
903 index++;
907 #if 0
908 /* Can't do this because readline hasn't yet checked the word breaks
909 for figuring out whether to insert a quote. */
910 if (output == NULL)
911 /* Make sure the word break characters are set back to normal for
912 the next time that readline tries to complete something. */
913 rl_completer_word_break_characters =
914 current_language->la_word_break_characters();
915 #endif
917 return (output);
920 /* Skip over the possibly quoted word STR (as defined by the quote
921 characters QUOTECHARS and the word break characters BREAKCHARS).
922 Returns pointer to the location after the "word". If either
923 QUOTECHARS or BREAKCHARS is NULL, use the same values used by the
924 completer. */
926 char *
927 skip_quoted_chars (char *str, char *quotechars, char *breakchars)
929 char quote_char = '\0';
930 char *scan;
932 if (quotechars == NULL)
933 quotechars = gdb_completer_quote_characters;
935 if (breakchars == NULL)
936 breakchars = current_language->la_word_break_characters();
938 for (scan = str; *scan != '\0'; scan++)
940 if (quote_char != '\0')
942 /* Ignore everything until the matching close quote char. */
943 if (*scan == quote_char)
945 /* Found matching close quote. */
946 scan++;
947 break;
950 else if (strchr (quotechars, *scan))
952 /* Found start of a quoted string. */
953 quote_char = *scan;
955 else if (strchr (breakchars, *scan))
957 break;
961 return (scan);
964 /* Skip over the possibly quoted word STR (as defined by the quote
965 characters and word break characters used by the completer).
966 Returns pointer to the location after the "word". */
968 char *
969 skip_quoted (char *str)
971 return skip_quoted_chars (str, NULL, NULL);