How to get pathname completion when doing 'M-!'

How to get pathname completion when doing 'M-!'

[Francis Moreau]

Hello,

I would find usefull to have pathname completion (as in a shell) in
the mini buffer when running the 'shell-command' command (M-!).

Is it possible ?

Thanks
-- 
Francis

Re: How to get pathname completion when doing 'M-!'

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would find usefull to have pathname completion (as in a shell) in
> the mini buffer when running the 'shell-command' command (M-!).
>
> Is it possible ?
>
> Thanks
Look at:

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecuteExternalCommand

You will find shell-command.el

-- 
A + Thierry Volpiatto
Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France

Re: How to get pathname completion when doing 'M-!'

[Francis Moreau]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Look at:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ExecuteExternalCommand
>
> You will find shell-command.el

That's exactly what I was looking for !

Thanks.
-- 
Francis

Re: How to get pathname completion when doing 'M-!'

[Kevin Ryde]

Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I would find usefull to have pathname completion (as in a shell) in
> the mini buffer when running the 'shell-command' command (M-!).

For a long time I've pressed comint into service for Tab,

  (autoload 'comint-dynamic-complete-filename "comint" nil t)
  (define-key minibuffer-local-map "\t" 'comint-dynamic-complete-filename)

`completing-read' has its own tab binding, so this doesn't interfere
with that, you just get filenames completed in M-x compile and stuff
like that.

The autoload can be annoying on first use when its "loading" message
hides the minibuffer for a second.  There must be an easy way to
suppress that, but I never bothered finding it.