From ae8700747866bff3390cf60f580f4c809d4ea7dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Coates <sean@seancoates.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 12:25:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add $ to variable name character matching patterns in repl
 completer

---
 lib/repl.js | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/repl.js b/lib/repl.js
index 5e6de2f720..fcd65e0ca6 100644
--- a/lib/repl.js
+++ b/lib/repl.js
@@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ REPLServer.prototype.complete = function (line) {
   //   spam.eggs.<|>  # completions for 'spam.eggs' with filter ''
   //   foo<|>         # all scope vars with filter 'foo'
   //   foo.<|>        # completions for 'foo' with filter ''
-  else if (line.length === 0 || line[line.length-1].match(/\w|\./)) {
-    var simpleExpressionPat = /(([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\.)*([a-zA-Z_]\w*)\.?$/;
+  else if (line.length === 0 || line[line.length-1].match(/\w|\.|\$/)) {
+    var simpleExpressionPat = /(([a-zA-Z_$](?:\w|\$)*)\.)*([a-zA-Z_$](?:\w|\$)*)\.?$/;
     match = simpleExpressionPat.exec(line);
     if (line.length === 0 || match) {
       var expr;