From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/ Date: 11 Jul 2002 15:30:39 +0200 Organization: T-Online 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026394227 6289 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 13:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:30:27 +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 17Se1a-0001dI-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:30:26 +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 17Se2L-0006im-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:31:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Se1p-0006iD-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:30:42 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout04.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17Se1n-0003jz-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 17Se1n-0000IV-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:30:39 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 17Se1n-00081q-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:30:39 +0200 Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@prep.ai.mit.edu Original-Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1026394239 01 30613 zNbAbFeXS7YFRB 020711 13:30:39 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 520018396234-0001@t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6,xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN;i";/yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:2626 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2626 miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes: > rms@gnu.org (Richard Stallman) writes: > > Perhaps this means that Shell mode commands should never expand > > environment variables. If we leave it for the shell to expand them, > > it will at least expand them consistently. > > > > What do people think about this? Are there cases where Shell mode > > commands that expand envvars which would be greatly missed? > > YES!! I use (constant) environment variables _constantly_ and I > heavily depend on them being expanded by completion in shell mode! > > I think this `problem' is very minor, and in fact we really don't need > to change anything. Well, perhaps one could make C-u TAB ask the shell itself for an update on the shell's environment in some manner? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de