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From: Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/
Date: 09 Jul 2002 16:54:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buowus58hgc.fsf@mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bs9hkatg.fsf@jidanni.org>

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 ~ ?

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

-Miles
-- 
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
 where four map sheets join."   -- Anon. British Officer in WW I

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-09  7:54 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 [this message]
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
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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