Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

>>>>> "M" == Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> writes:

M> jidanni@dman.ddts.net (Dan Jacobson) writes:
>> $ cd; emacs -q
>> <escape> x s h e l l <return> c d SPC . . <return> m o r e SPC $ P W D / <tab>
>> Well, are the *Completions* those of .. or ~ ?

M> In general, you can't rely on completion in shell-mode to know about the
M> exact internal state of the shell process, since there's no way for
M> emacs to figure that out (it tries to track the current directory, since
M> that's very important, but even that can sometimes get messed up).  The
M> value of the PWD environment variable in emacs is just whatever value it
M> got at startup.

OK, then it should admit (in the minibuffer) that it might not know
what it is/would be doing at this point, instead of confidently giving
a list that is probably wrong, and thus fooling the user into thinking
various files are/aren't in the current dir.
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