EC_COMP_ITEM_SET_STR(3)

💖 EC_COMP_ITEM_SET_STR 💖

okay bestie, you're in the Libecoli Programmer's Manual and today's main character is ec_comp_item_set_str — she sets the completion item string, no cap ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_comp_item_set_str — set the completion item string, periodt 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <ecoli/complete.h>

int ec_comp_item_set_str(
    struct ec_comp_item   *item,  /* The completion item to update. */
    const char            *str    /* The new item string. */
);

like. she takes an item and a str and that's the whole vibe 🦋

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie: some intermediate nodes — think sh_lex and friends — literally go in and modify the completion string of the items their children generated. why? to add quotes, babes. it's giving glow-up. it's giving "your child made this, but I'm gonna make it cute" 💅

that's it. that's the function. iykyk 😌

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🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

• 0 — success, slay, we ate 👑
• -1 — error bestie, and errno is set 😭

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the whole friend group, fr fr:

• ec_comp_add_item(3)
• ec_comp_count(3)
• ec_complete(3)
• ec_comp_get_attrs(3)
• ec_comp_group_get_attrs(3)
• ec_comp_iter_next(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_node(3)
• ec_comp_iter_first(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_current(3)
• ec_comp_group_get_node(3)
• ec_complete_strvec_expand(3)
• ec_comp_free(3)
• ec_comp_get_cur_pstate(3)
• ec_complete_unknown(3)
• ec_complete_strvec(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_grp(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_type(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_str(3)
• ec_comp_item_set_display(3)
• ec_complete_child(3)
• ec_comp(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_display(3)
• ec_comp_item_get_completion(3)
• ec_comp_group_get_pstate(3)
• ec_comp_dump(3)
• ec_comp_merge(3)
• ec_comp_item_set_completion(3)
• ec_comp_get_cur_group(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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and that's a wrap bestie 🌈 this lil page is from libecoli, dated 2026-06-11, and she's filed under EC_COMP_ITEM_SET_STR(3) 🎀 go forth and set those strings, queen 🫶