Question

Any ideas on how to implement tab completion for a .NET (C#) Console Application? And I mean within an application that is run and then loops for user input (like if you run http://ftp.exe without any arguments), like this:

        string line = string.Empty;         while (line != 'exit')         {             //do something here             Console.ReadLine();         } 

I know I probably couldn’t actually use readline, but I would like to be able to do tab completion at that same point where you retrieve input from the user.

Answer 1

Take a look at this code from the Mono project http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Aug-26.html I played with it some the other day. It does a lot of command line editingy, but I don’t think it does line completion.