[Bash-completion-devel] How to implement a stateful behavior in bash-completion?

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 16 December 2010, Yong Sun wrote:
> Hi, guys,
> 
> I have another question, I'd like to implement a stateful behavior in
> bash-completion scripts, e.g., the behavior would be different for 1st
> tab and 2nd tab key pressed.
> 
> The only thing I could imagine is to use global variables in functions.
> 
> Do you know how could I implement this?

I don't, and I wouldn't even try myself.  It would probably interact badly 
with for example "set show-all-if-ambiguous on" in ~/.inputrc.