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 16:31:06 +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> <87sn2qxtbu.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 1026397895 16777 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2002 14:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 14:31:35 +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 17Seyk-0004MU-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:31:34 +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 17SezR-0001gc-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:32:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.17]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17SeyK-0001fL-00 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:31:08 -0400 Original-Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17SeyJ-0003cB-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 17SeyJ-0000g2-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:31:07 +0200 Original-Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 17SeyJ-0006hk-00; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:31:07 +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: 23 Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1026397866 06 25405 euEAb96GSZAXjR 020711 14:31:06 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:2629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:2629 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