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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/
Date: 11 Jul 2002 22:55:17 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sn2qxtbu.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x53cuqz91c.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz

David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
> Well, perhaps one could make C-u TAB ask the shell itself for
> an update on the shell's environment in some manner?

This is a hard problem to solve, and I suspect that very few people are
bitten by it (the sort of person who uses env vars like that is also
usually clueful enough to realize why it won't work in some cases).

We can add a hack for PWD if that makes people feel fuzzy.

-Miles
-- 
`The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-07 21:13 *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/ Dan Jacobson
     [not found] ` <200207081820.g68IKeP12935@aztec.santafe.edu>
2002-07-09  0:24   ` Dan Jacobson
2002-07-09  7:54     ` Miles Bader
2002-07-10  6:03       ` Dan Jacobson
2002-07-10 17:31         ` Miles Bader
2002-07-10 16:48       ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-07-10 17:45         ` Dan Jacobson
2002-07-10 18:21           ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-07-10 18:30           ` David Kastrup
2002-07-11 12:01         ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-11 13:26           ` Miles Bader
2002-07-11 13:30             ` David Kastrup
2002-07-11 13:55               ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-07-11 14:31                 ` David Kastrup
2002-07-11 17:06                   ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-07-11 23:05                     ` David Kastrup
2002-07-12  8:09                     ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-17 16:58                 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-17 18:26                   ` Miles Bader
2002-07-18 12:01                     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-18 12:18                       ` Andreas Schwab

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