From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/ Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:18:26 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: 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> <87sn2qxtbu.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <87wuru2otn.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026994760 23711 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2002 12:19:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:19:20 +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 17VAFb-0006AK-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:19:19 +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 17VAFf-0007xm-00; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ashd1-2.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.246]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VAEq-0007wm-00 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 08:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Cantor.suse.de by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) id QQmyar06306 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:18:28 GMT Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D620146C2 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:18:28 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org X-Yow: Oh my GOD -- the SUN just fell into YANKEE STADIUM!! In-Reply-To: (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:01:13 +0200") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net id QQmyar06306 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:2758 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2758 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai writes: |> miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes: |>=20 |> > Annoying little wrinkle (1): you don't actually know who's listening |> > when you send input to the subprocess -- it may be the shell you |> > started, it may be some process running under the shell... |>=20 |> That could be "solved" by documenting it properly: just say that C-u |> TAB sends input to the remote shell and that things will break if |> there is no remote shell. |>=20 |> After all, RET isn't all that different: it also just sends input to |> the remote end, and it doesn't care whether it's really a shell... This is quite different because after sending input with RET you don't expect any particular response. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N=FCrnberg Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."