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From: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
To: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:56:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FEBD645B-AE9B-4E83-8482-3B063B485CF0@math.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EBA2376.7050006@easy-emacs.de>

Do you mean M-x describe-key TAB? It says:

Click <mouse-2> on a completion to select it.
In this buffer, type M-x choose-completion to select the completion near point.

Possible completions are:
describe-key
describe-key-briefly

On 2011-11-09, at 07:53 , Andreas Röhler wrote:

> Am 09.11.2011 07:48, schrieb Marius Hofert:
>>> AFAIU it might matter, wherefrom you open the shell. It may or will have it's own (minor-)mode, where TAB completion is provided or not. In different available python-shells for example, TAB completion might be performed by different functions.
>>> 
>>> Call M-x describe-mode from inside shell, to get info which mode is behind, which keys are set etc,
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Andreas
>> 
>> Hi Andreas,
>> 
>> thanks a lot for helping. Here is the output of M-x describe-mode:
>> 
>> Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption Autopair
>> Autopair-Global Blink-Cursor Column-Number Delete-Selection Desktop-Save
>> Diff-Auto-Refine File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock Global-Font-Lock Global-Visual-Line
>> Line-Number Menu-Bar Mouse-Wheel Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Tooltip
>> Transient-Mark Visual-Line Yas/Global
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
> 
> what says M-s describe-key TAB
> 





  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09  6:56 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 [this message]
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
     [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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