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> > I guess it's not seeing the #\> as being of symbol syntax. > > You're right. Unfortunately, this is a limitation of readline. When > readline calls the user callback, it provides information about what's > going to be completed. Undortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way > to control what it considers a word, so one would need to convince it > that ">" is sometimes part of a word. Are you sure? GDB does all kinds of funky completion using readline... > There is a global variable which, when the callback is being called, > stores the line so far; one might be able to do something clever > here. But it would be complicated. Really? It seems like (my R4RS is still packed, *SHAME*) you'd just have to scan backwards from the current cursor position while the characters were valid symbol constituents, and then complete on that substring.