From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 57673@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#57673: [PATCH] Parse --help messages for pcomplete
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:05:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qsmm2y5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d2e3urp.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:39:22 +0200")
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022 at 14:39, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> I'm wholly unfamiliar with how bash does completions. But is there any
> reasonable way to reuse the bash completion framework here?
There is a MELPA package that does that:
https://github.com/szermatt/emacs-bash-completion
But I it never worked very well for me, possibly because I often use
Tramp connections with high latency. IIUC this package is like Python's
"native completion", i.e., it relies on sending "prefix\t\t" to the bash
process and hopes readline will do its thing.
Exploiting bash could work nicely if it had a
please_complete_this_partial_command function, but this doesn't seem
possible. I might be wrong, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-08 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-08 9:34 bug#57673: [PATCH] Parse --help messages for pcomplete Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-08 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-08 13:05 ` Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2022-09-09 17:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-10 9:20 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-08 20:49 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-08 21:53 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-09 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-10 9:45 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-10 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-10 16:12 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-14 19:15 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-14 19:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 19:41 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-14 19:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 19:57 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-14 19:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 20:40 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-14 21:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 21:23 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-09-14 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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