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* Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
@ 2011-11-08 19:34 Marius Hofert
  2011-11-09  6:43 ` Andreas Röhler
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 32+ messages in thread
From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-11-08 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Emacs help

Hi,

I have a strange problem with OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 and Emacs: GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1.

If I open a shell with M-x shell, I can TAB-complete several commands, such as ps2pdf and many others. However, I can't seem to TAB-complete all commands. One exception is a2ps. I installed it, it works perfectly fine, I can TAB-complete it from the Mac's terminal, however, I can't TAB-complete it from the shell opened with M-x shell. The simple question is: Why?

Note that if I type "echo $PATH", I get:
a) from the Mac's terminal: 
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
b) from the emacs shell: 
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
=> exactly the same. 

If I type "which a2ps" from the emacs shell, I get: /opt/local/bin/a2ps so the correct place is found, but why is there no TAB-completion?

Cheers,

Marius




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2011-11-09 17:06 ` Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:28   ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:38     ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:51       ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 18:05         ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 18:49           ` Jonathan Oddie
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2011-11-09 21:19           ` Marius Hofert
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2011-11-08 19:34 Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  6:43 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  6:48   ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  6:53     ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  6:56       ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  7:09         ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  7:13           ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  7:26             ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  7:45               ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  7:54                 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  8:29                   ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  8:34                     ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  8:41                       ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09  8:59                         ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  9:05                           ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-11  3:03                             ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-09  9:23                           ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 11:10                             ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 13:29                               ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 15:28                   ` PJ Weisberg
2011-11-09 17:02                     ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  6:56       ` Andreas Röhler

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