unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* Completing environmental variable names?
@ 2015-04-01 12:34 Ludwig, Mark
  2015-04-01 13:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
       [not found] ` <mailman.3129.1427895033.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Ludwig, Mark @ 2015-04-01 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Has anyone written a hook to complete environmental variable
names?

Imagine that I have a variable named LONG_ENV_VAR_NAME, and
one called LONG_FOO_VAR_NAME.  If I'm finding a file (typing
its name in the minibuffer, the usual way), and after typing
"$LONG_E" I want to press TAB, and have it to complete it to
$LONG_ENV_VAR_NAME and then to expand its value (as it does
already).

I've become accustomed to this behavior in the T C Shell,
and frown when my beloved Emacs is less capable....

Thanks,
--
Mark Ludwig
Lifecycle Coll
Product Lifecycle Management

Siemens Industry Sector
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
5939 Rice Creek Parkway
Shoreview, MN  55126 United States 
Tel.      :+1 (651) 855-6140
Fax      :+1 (651) 855-6280
ludwig.mark@siemens.com 
www.siemens.com/plm 





^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2015-04-02  0:08 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2015-04-01 12:34 Completing environmental variable names? Ludwig, Mark
2015-04-01 13:30 ` Óscar Fuentes
     [not found] ` <mailman.3129.1427895033.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-01 23:12   ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 23:24     ` Ludwig, Mark
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3166.1427930697.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-02  0:08       ` Emanuel Berg

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).