From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should emacs include shell-command.el?
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:35:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzm1e7jzp.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27ioiyiby.fsf@cam.ac.uk> (Leo's message of "Sun\, 29 Jul 2007 23\:07\:45 +0100")
> One of the nice features that shell-command.el provides is completion in
> shell-command (key: M-!).
> http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/elisp/shell-command.el
> It seems very nice. Do you think it is a good idea to include that?
I think it should use pcomplete. But that requires for someone to take over
maintenance of pcomplete and to change pcomplete's defaults so they more
closely mimick the traditional completion behavior in the rest of Emacs.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-30 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-29 22:07 Should emacs include shell-command.el? Leo
2007-07-30 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-08-02 14:30 ` Leo
2007-08-18 17:50 ` shell-command stop working (was: Should emacs include shell-command.el?) Leo
2007-08-20 4:11 ` pcomplete fails (was: shell-command stop working) Stefan Monnier
2007-08-25 14:43 ` pcomplete fails Leo
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