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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
Cc: 57673@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#57673: [PATCH] Parse --help messages for pcomplete
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:02:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8735d0wkf0.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qsmm2y5.fsf@gmail.com> (Augusto Stoffel's message of "Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:05:22 +0200")

Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I see.

> 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.

I wondered whether we could use those files more directly -- executing
them or something in the right context?  (Like I said, I know nothing
about how this works. 😀)






  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-09 17:02 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
2022-09-09 17:02     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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