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Asked: 2026-05-30T12:50:52+00:00

I built my ruby like so: brew install readline rvm install ruby-1.9.2-head -C –with-readline-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.1/

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I built my ruby like so:

brew install readline
rvm install ruby-1.9.2-head -C --with-readline-dir=/usr/local/Cellar/readline/6.2.1/

When I do tab completion it appends a space after everything. I found in the docs that there’s a variable called completion_append_character. It’s set to a space. If I set it to nil or any other character it still appends a space. How do I get it to stop appending a space after a completion?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This Problem is solved in the last version of Ruby 1.9.3-p125 as you can see in Changelog:

    Wed Feb 8 10:34:59 2012 TAKAO Kouji

    • ext/readline/readline.c (readline_attempted_completion_function):
      in Readline module with GNU Readline 6 case, Readline module
      resets completion_append_character to ” “, after it executes
      completion. So, Readline module stores
      completion_append_character, and Readline module always sets it
      after Readline module executes completion. [ruby-dev:43456]
      [Feature #4635]
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