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
>
next prev parent 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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