Re: Making tab-complete.c easier to maintain

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI wrote:

> Auto-generating from grammer should be the ultimate solution but
> I don't think it will be available. But still I found that the
> word-splitting-then-match-word-by-word-for-each-matching is
> terriblly unmaintainable and poorly capable. So, how about
> regular expressions?

I don't think this is an improvement.  It seems to me that a lot more
work is required to maintain these regular expressions, which while
straightforward are not entirely trivial (harder to read).

If we could come up with a reasonable format that is pre-processed to a
regexp, that might be better.  I think Thomas' proposed patch is closer
to that than Horiguchi-san's.

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