Re: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand'

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

"paul r" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> M-x shell-command, as well as its relatives (shell-command-on-region,
> grep, grep-find, compile and maybe more), do not provide any kind of
> completion in the minibuffer. This is a surprising behaviour, because
> almost any other interactive function prompting for something that can
> be tab-completed do provide tab-completion.
> TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote an enhancement for it, that can be found
> http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/elisp/shell-command.el . This code works
> against current head.

It's a neat package. However, its implementation is based mainly on
defadvices of shell-command, shell-command-on-region, grep, grep-find
and compile. I don't believe that it shall be integrated into the Emacs
core lisp *this* way. This could be a conflict, because the author seems
to be interested in offering this package for different Emacs version,
where this approach looks necessary.

Some minor concerns are the used GPLv2 (shall be GPLv3), and that it
doesn't support Tramp. But this could be solved easily.

Best regards, Michael.