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From: David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/
Date: 11 Jul 2002 16:31:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5sn2qxro5.fsf@tupik.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sn2qxtbu.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp

miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes:

> David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
> > Well, perhaps one could make C-u TAB ask the shell itself for
> > an update on the shell's environment in some manner?
> 
> This is a hard problem to solve,

Well, that's why I wanted to use a prefix argument in order to tell
Emacs it better ask the shell itself for the environment variable.

> and I suspect that very few people are bitten by it (the sort of
> person who uses env vars like that is also usually clueful enough to
> realize why it won't work in some cases).
> 
> We can add a hack for PWD if that makes people feel fuzzy.

Don't think that would be much needed: after all, one can use ~
expansion instead.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-11 14:31 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
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 [this message]
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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