Re: completing on makefile targets

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Yeah, but I hate making assumptions like that; the relevant Makefile
>> could easily be somewhere else.
>
> For the general pcomplete functionality to work, it's necessary for the
> minibuffer's default-directory to be the same as that where the command
> will be run.  So, in the pcomplete/make function you *can* presume that
> the default-directory is the one where `make` will run (and hence follow
> `make`s rule about how to find the appropriate makefile).

Hmm. Looking at the current pcomplete/make in pcmpl-gnu.el, that's what
it does. It even handles the 'make' -f option. So I could just use that
function.

Hmm. pcomplete-completions-at-point is already in
shell-dynamic-complete-functions, so maybe that's why completion on
makefile targets was working, sometimes. So now I could try to figure
out why it stopped working.

I've now written a completion-at-point function that also handles
targets in included makefiles, which I've wanted for a long time. I'll
test that for a while, then look into adding that (with a controlling
option) to pcomplete/make.

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-- Stephe