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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:41:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBA3CB6.70503@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F2A0DC00-5974-40F0-9FCC-2712682690B3@math.ethz.ch>

Am 09.11.2011 09:34, schrieb Marius Hofert:
>
> On 2011-11-09, at 09:29 , Andreas Röhler wrote:
>
>> Am 09.11.2011 08:54, schrieb Marius Hofert:
>>> I just figured out that if I start emacs from the Mac's terminal (via "emacs" which starts /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs) and open an emacs shell with M-x shell, I can tab-complete a2ps.
>>>
>>> Hmmm... so the GUI version seems to act weird...
>>>
>>
>> If you do after shell prompt
>>
>> M-x describe-variable RET completion-at-point-functions
[ ... ]
> =>  looks like the same output

would assume a bug in shell.el

comint-completion-at-point is defined as

(defun comint-completion-at-point ()
   (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'comint-dynamic-complete-functions))

so you could try same play looking for contents of

comint-dynamic-complete-functions



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-08 19:34 Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? 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 [this message]
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
     [not found] <mailman.9.1320780886.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-11-09  1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] <mailman.2976.1320857313.797.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-11-09 17:06 ` 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
2011-11-09 18:52             ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 21:19           ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:46     ` Jonathan Oddie

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