From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Status of shell-pcomplete integration? Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:47:59 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <843cph3fm8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: <87u1hxstta.fsf@orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038757808 16167 80.91.224.249 (1 Dec 2002 15:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 15:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IWM7-0004CK-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:50:03 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18IWUi-0001yv-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:58:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IWL9-00032B-00; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:49:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IWKF-0002s7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:48:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IWKD-0002ru-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:48:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IWKD-0002ri-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IWHy-0003QK-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:45:46 +0100 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IWHx-0003QA-00 for ; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 16:45:45 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p50877314.dip.t-dialin.net Original-X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038757545 12237 80.135.115.20 (1 Dec 2002 15:45:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 15:45:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:enf8KcDmrGTD+ARxTjCPd80Aa8k= Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9781 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9781 Romain FRANCOISE writes: > is someone currently working on integrating pcomplete in Shell-mode? > From the list archives, I see that support for pcomplete has been added > in Feb. 2002 then removed in March, because it wasn't ready and didn't > work right. > > If no progress has been made towards this goal since then (and a quick > look through shell.el didn't seem to indicate there has), I think the > entry in etc/NEWS that says that Shell-mode now supports programmable > completion should be removed; it is misleading. I would like to see pcomplete completion in shell mode. IIRC, the complaints were ones that could have been solved by frobbing the pcomplete options appropriately. It would be a pity to omit this feature because of such easily solved problems. Caveat: I don't _know_ what exactly were the problems. I only _believe_ it would have been easy to solve them. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)