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From: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
To: 30271@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30271: 26.0.91; shell mode completion sometimes fails to complete
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 09:55:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21055.1517162127@alto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: My message of "Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:22:09 -0800." <809.1517080929@alto>

Mike Kupfer wrote:

> I suspect that the completion code is trying to be clever, figuring that
> directories are not compressable, so "gzip Desktop" would not make
> sense.

I've verified that the completion code is going through
#'pcomplete/gzip.  From inspection, I see that #'pcmpl-gnu-zipped-files
only considers regular files, so directories get filtered out.

> But this just gets in the way if what I want to compress is a
> file in Desktop.

I haven't found any user options or variables that will let me get the
behavior I want, so I ended up putting this workaround in my startup
code:

(defadvice pcomplete-find-completion-function (after 
					       mdk-reliable-completions
					       compile
					       activate)
  "Force use of the generic completion function."
  (setq ad-return-value nil))

mike





  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-28 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-27 19:22 bug#30271: 26.0.91; shell mode completion sometimes fails to complete Mike Kupfer
2018-01-28 17:55 ` Mike Kupfer [this message]
2020-10-27  2:21   ` Stefan Kangas

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