From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/ Date: 11 Jul 2002 22:55:17 +0900 Organization: Global Online Japan Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87sn2qxtbu.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <87vg7rutpk.fsf@jidanni.org> <200207081820.g68IKeP12935@aztec.santafe.edu> <87bs9hkatg.fsf@jidanni.org> <3D2C6579.3020005@ihs.com> <200207111201.g6BC1Nx16935@aztec.santafe.edu> <87znwyxun1.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026396087 11142 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 14:01:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17SeVb-0002tU-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:01:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SeWM-0008VH-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:02:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailbox2.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.54]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SeVh-0008T5-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:01:33 -0400 Original-Received: from nnrp.gol.com (nnrp.gol.com [203.216.7.70]) by mailbox2.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6BDtJAR070600 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 06:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from news by nnrp.gol.com with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SePe-0005Rf-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:55:18 +0900 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: tc-2-218.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1026395718 19033 203.216.25.218 (11 Jul 2002 13:55:18 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:55:18 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu X-MailScanner: Passed Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:2627 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2627 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'