From: Stefan Monnier via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 51130@debbugs.gnu.org, Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita2@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 09:32:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmtb35roj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0674j4k.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:19:07 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen [2022-09-13 13:19:07] wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>>> * lisp/shell.el: Require and use pcomplete.
>>> (shell-dynamic-complete-functions): Add pcomplete-completions-at-point.
>>> (shell-completion-vars): Set pcomplete-default-completion-function.
>>>
>>> Just leaving pcomplete-default-completion-function alone seems to give
>>> better results in shell-mode (after testing very briefly), so I'm not
>>> sure why that was added.
>>
>> It was added because leaving `pcomplete-default-completion-function`
>> alone means that the functions after `pcomplete-completions-at-point` in
>> `shell-dynamic-complete-functions` are not used any more.
>
> Uhm... I don't follow the logic at all.
> pcomplete-default-completion-function is documented to be applied if
> everything else has failed to do completion, isn't it?
Look at `shell-dynamic-complete-functions`:
(defcustom shell-dynamic-complete-functions
'(comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history
shell-environment-variable-completion
shell-command-completion
shell-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-directory
pcomplete-completions-at-point
shell-filename-completion
comint-filename-completion)
"List of functions called to perform completion.
This variable is used to initialize `comint-dynamic-complete-functions' in the
shell buffer."
:type '(repeat function)
:group 'shell)
if `pcomplete-default-completion-function` is left at its default value,
then `pcomplete-completions-at-point` will never return nil, so the
functions that appear after it in the above list will just never
be used.
The change I introduced tried to preserve as much of the existing
completion as possible, by only using the non-fallback pcomplete rules
and keeping the existing `shell-filename-completion` and
`comint-filename-completion` thingies as the fallback.
I don't know that it's the best choice. It was just the
conservative choice.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-13 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-11 3:08 bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames Carlos Pita
2022-09-12 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-12 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-13 11:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-13 13:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-09-14 12:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-14 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-09-14 15:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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