From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: 65766@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65766: 29.1; On MS-Windows, Pcomplete for Git subcommands opens a web browser instead of listing completions(?!)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 13:01:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a90048dc-4807-bcae-0f01-e23501744746@gmail.com> (raw)
This is pretty weird, but I think I know what's happening here. On
MS-Windows, start from "emacs -Q -f shell" and then type:
git add -<TAB>
Instead of showing the list of completions, this opens up a web browser
to the URL
<file:///C:/Program%20Files/Git/mingw64/share/doc/git-doc/git-add.html>
(or wherever you installed Git).
That's because usually, MS-Windows users don't have "man" installed, so
Git opts to show its man pages in a web browser. I think when getting
Pcomplete info from Help for Git, we should pass '--man' on the command
line to force Git to use the format we expect (or at least to error out
so that it doesn't open the web browser).
next reply other threads:[~2023-09-05 20:01 UTC|newest]
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2023-09-05 20:01 Jim Porter [this message]
2023-09-06 11:13 ` bug#65766: 29.1; On MS-Windows, Pcomplete for Git subcommands opens a web browser instead of listing completions(?!) Eli Zaretskii
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