From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:21:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewsuyvepb.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86r6l67kqf.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Mon\, 10 Sep 2007 14\:44\:56 +0200")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> The way this would work would be when TAB is pressed to send the
> partial line up to the cursor as input to the shell, followed by TAB,
> then capture the output from bash and interpret it (either inserting
> completed output, or offering a completion menu).
Command line editing is disabled in the inferior shell. If you want to
enable it you'll have to make sure all literal control characters are
preceded by the quote character before sending the line to the shell.
You'll also have to enable echoing to be able to capture anything.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-10 13:21 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 [this message]
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
2007-09-10 23:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-10 14:30 ` David Kastrup
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