From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Felix E. Klee" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: shell-mode autocompletion uglinesses Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:40:50 +0100 Organization: (Posted via) INKA e.V. http://www.inka.de/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84y978cgvh.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038861846 27720 80.91.224.249 (2 Dec 2002 20:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 20:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IxQA-0007Cl-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18IxS8-0004Jp-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:46:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!inka.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: puric.inka.de Original-X-Trace: sapa.inka.de 1038861628 2344 193.197.184.17 (2 Dec 2002 20:40:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@inka.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 2002 20:40:28 GMT User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107667 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4217 Kai Großjohann wrote: >> 1. When I enter >> ls /usr/ >> and press tab nothing happens. What I expect, however, is that I get a >> list of choices containing all files and directories in "/usr/". > > What happens if you press TAB again? Nothing. >> Then I press "n tab" and the shell command expands into >> ls /usr/include >> as intended. Now, however, the *Completions* buffer is still there >> although it is not needed anymore. How do I make it go away once I >> have finished my completion? > > I think pcomplete has a mechanism for making the completions buffer > disappear. At least I know that eshell does this. Yes, it works even in shell-mode. After a short delay the *Completions* buffer disappears. >> If I cannot change the above behavior I'd rather use tab autocompletion >> as implemented in my shell (BASH). Is this possible? > > Once upon a time, there was a file which purported to use the tcsh > tab completion in shell mode. It was years ago. Maybe it also works > for bash. I have no idea how to find the file. It had `tcsh' in its > name and possibly also `complet'. Thanks, I'll try to find it if pcomplete is still insufficient. > Another alternative would be to set up shell mode to use pcomplete > now. Hm. Ah! Maybe it's sufficient to > > (require 'shell) > (define-key shell-mode-map (kbd "TAB") 'pcomplete) > > How about you try this? Thanks! Now the examples above work. However there's a new problem: 1. I create a new shell. 2. I enter "ls pro", hit tab and get "ls projects". 3. After hitting enter and seeing the contents I type "ls pro" again. 4. Now, autocompletion doesn't work anymore, nothing happens. So, somehow pcomplete seems to become corrupted. After its first autocompletion it can't autocomplete directories in the home directory any more. In addition pcomple sometimes hangs or is slow and I have to hit "C-g" to cancel it. I'm using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i586-suse-linux, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2002-09-11 on amdsimb Felix