Peter Todd wrote:

> I'm actually collecting feature ideas to write a new version of that
> underlying readline library with extensions to support completion modes
> like the above. Right now readline is mostly focused on the mechanics of
> the command editing, completion is limited to the one root-suffix style
> that you see in bash. One immediate feature I'd like to implement is for
> the root in all the best matches be bolded, underlined, something, so
> you can easilly figure out what character is next

This sounds as if it could be helpful. I'd probably mark bold the
non-matched parts (or possibly only the first non-matched character), as
this is where you want to focus on for figuring out the next key. 

Gerhard

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