Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Lave]

Hi, all.

In a terminal, like urxvt. A cd command can differantiate dictionary and file.

For example, a dictionary ~/kernel lists like this:

[~/kernel] ls
linux-2.6/
linux-image-2.6.27-rc9_2.6.27-rc9-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.27_2.6.27-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb
linux-image-2.6.27-rc7_2.6.27-rc7-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb

When I input cd and [tab] in urxvt, the linux-2.6 was completed. But
in shell-mode it's not, and stop at "linux-", waiting for input.

Another instance:

In shell-mode, the commands, like install, in "apt-get <command>", are
not completed too.

Shall we make shell-mode more smart, and abandon the terminal away?

Lave

Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Lave <lave.wang.w@gmail.com> wrote:

> In a terminal, like urxvt. A cd command can differantiate dictionary
> and file.

That's not a feature of the terminal, it's a feature of the shell.

I use bash and bash_completion, and it fine works in shell-mode.  What
are you using?


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Lave]

On 10/20/08, Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de> wrote:
> Lave <lave.wang.w@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In a terminal, like urxvt. A cd command can differantiate dictionary
>> and file.
>
> That's not a feature of the terminal, it's a feature of the shell.
>
> I use bash and bash_completion, and it fine works in shell-mode.  What
> are you using?

Can you give me a copy of you config, then ? Thanks a lot.

>
>
> regards,
> Nikolaj Schumacher
>


-- 

Lave

Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Paul R]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:25:18 +0800, Lave <lave.wang.w@gmail.com> said:

Lave> Hi, all. In a terminal, like urxvt. A cd command can
Lave> differantiate dictionary and file.

This has nothing to do with the terminal emulator you use.

Lave> Shall we make shell-mode more smart, and abandon the terminal
Lave> away?

Make shell-mode use your usuall bash (or whatever shell you use)
settings and that's it.

-- 
  Paul

Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Lave]

Yes. Shell-mode really uses my usual bash /bin/bash.

Now I know completion has nothing to do with terminal.

But I found something with google. It's said because shell-mode handle
completion itself, and it's not so smart as bash completion. Is that
real? Then why the creator didn't just use bash completion?

Does your 'apt-get install's completion work well?

-- 

Lave

Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Miles Bader]

Lave <lave.wang.w@gmail.com> writes:
> Then why the creator didn't just use bash completion?

It's quite difficult to do that, mainly because there is no high-level
communication channel emacs can use to talk to the shell.

It's easy to leave _all_ of the editing/completion to the shell (e.g.
term-mode), or _none_ of it (e.g., shell-mode), but it would be very
hard to do it half-way.

-Miles

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