From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:51:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jek5qyv7re.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86642i4lp9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 10 Sep 2007 16\:52\:18 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> programmable completion is extensively context-sensitive (which is
> pretty much its whole point: it does not just complete file names, but
> also CVS revisions, options and other stuff).
The gdb completions are context sentive as well. The implementation
uses the complete command that gets the current command line as argument
and lists all completions thereof. That does not handle all cases
though, there is no trailing context.
> And sending such a command would clobber the command history, too.
In gdb this is solved by defining a special prefix that suppresses
putting the command in the history. Of course, this is much easier
implemented in gdb since there is a fixed set of commands.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-10 12:44 Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET David Kastrup
2007-09-10 13:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-10 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 14:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-10 14:10 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-10 14:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 15:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2007-09-10 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-10 14:30 ` David Kastrup
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