Term::Complete(3p)

Term::Complete3p

Perl word completion module

Usage

    $input = Complete('prompt_string', \@completion_list);
    $input = Complete('prompt_string', @completion_list);

Overview

This routine provides word completion on the list of words in the array (or array ref).

The tty driver is put into raw mode and restored using an operating system specific command, in UNIX-like environments "stty".

The following command characters are defined:

<tab>

Attempts word completion. Cannot be changed.

^D

Prints completion list. Defined by $Term::Complete::complete.

^U

Erases the current input. Defined by $Term::Complete::kill.

<del>, <bs>

Erases one character. Defined by $Term::Complete::erase1 and $Term::Complete::erase2.

Diagnostics

Bell sounds when word completion fails.

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

  1. 5.0–5.3
  2. 5.4–5.5
  3. 5.6
  4. 5.7
  5. 5.8–5.9
  6. 6.0
  7. 6.1
  8. 6.2
  9. 6.3–6.4
  10. 6.5
  11. 6.6
  12. 6.7
  13. 6.8
  14. 6.9–7.2
  15. 7.3
  16. 7.4
  17. 7.5
  18. 7.6
  19. 7.7–7.8
  20. 7.9
  21. 8.0

Bugs

The completion character <tab> cannot be changed.

Author

Wayne Thompson

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.