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Add FAQ entry about tab completion in prompts - #3826

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This PR add a FAQ entry to:

  • show users how to use readline to customize completion within prompts
  • point them to Python documentation for more details about readline behavior on different platforms
  • add a list of popular third-party interactive input libraries for users looking for fancy features

Closes #173 that is open since 2014. Its original request, completion when prompting for a path, works today: Click's prompt reads through input(), so readline handles the line.

Fancier interactive input at a prompt has been declined before:

@kdeldycke kdeldycke added this to the 8.5.1 milestone Sep 1, 2026
@kdeldycke kdeldycke added docs Updates to documentation, readme, docstrings, typos prompt Interactive input and confirmation labels Sep 1, 2026
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@kdeldycke kdeldycke added the shell completion Shell tab completion label Sep 1, 2026
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