From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>,
Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
59956@debbugs.gnu.org, John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Subject: bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:31:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8m7heh8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvcz8gw8f6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 18 Dec 2022 19:54:44 -0500")
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 19:54, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> There's a tension here: we want the completion to operate on the actual
> buffer text obviously, so in some places we definitely want to see the
> "unexpanded argument" [1], but when it comes to looking at other arguments
> to decide which completion table to use at point, it's often more useful
> to see the expanded arguments (i.e. the thing that the command will
> actually see). E.g. if the previous arg is `$foo` which expands to `-u`
> we'd probably prefer to see `-u` in order to know we should complete
> against user names.
If $foo is "-u -v"`, your patch will make pcomplete see this as a single
argument, no?
I think it makes sense to send the string "$foo" with the list '("-u"
"-v") embedded as text property, and add some convenience functions to
fetch the list for the pcomplete functions that can handle the more
refined information.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-19 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-11 1:25 bug#59956: 29.0.60: Failure when completing arguments in Eshell after variable interpolation Jim Porter
2022-12-11 7:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-11 8:56 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-11 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-12 22:21 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-12 22:37 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-12 23:27 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-16 11:20 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-12-16 6:09 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-16 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-16 14:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 0:54 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 1:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 2:15 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-19 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 15:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 16:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 22:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-21 6:32 ` Jim Porter
2022-12-21 9:28 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-29 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-19 10:31 ` Augusto Stoffel [this message]
2022-12-19 16:21 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-12-19 18:04 ` Jim Porter
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