On Jul 27, 2009, at 13:08, Bryan Richardson wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know who maintains the Ruby Readline extension?  I'm using
> Readline in a Ruby application I have written to provide a console
> interface and I have a suggestion for the extension.

You'll want to ask on the ruby-core list, or file a bug on redmine.

> [...]

>
> The easiest way I see to do this is to be able to provide a proc to  
> the
> Readline.completion_append_character variable rather than a string,  
> and
> have the completed command string passed to the proc.  This way, one  
> can
> determine if the string is a command, a directory, or a file and  
> return
> the appropriate append string.

Yeah, try filing a bug (or bug with patch) here:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org

The best way to get it noticed is to provide a short, concise piece of  
example code that doesn't work the way you want.