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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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 10:29:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsl5m7fxp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvabru8uzn.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon\, 10 Sep 2007 10\:19\:24 -0400")

>> 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,

> It would most likely have to be another key, because shell.el cannot know if
> the command is sent to bash or to some other application, so it could only
> be the user's choice to either get local completion or to send "prefix string
> plus TAB" to the application.

BTW, maybe we can do it the way `gdb' does it: instead of sending TAB, we
send a "list_all_completions" command, presuming that bash offers such
a function.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-10 14:29 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 [this message]
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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