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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: shell-mode command completion with slashes
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:57:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-4158BE.12572230102008@mara100-84.onlink.net> (raw)

I'm running Emacs 22.2.50 on OS X 10.5.5, and I use shell mode 
extensively.  I don't have "." in my $PATH, so if I want to run a 
program in the current directory I need to type "./program-name".  I'd 
like to be able to type "./prog<TAB>" and have it complete it, but it 
doesn't.  I looked at the source code of shell-dynamic-complete-command, 
and it explicitly checks for "~" or "/" in the word being completed, and 
gives up.  And shell-dynamic-complete-filename gives up if it's being 
used for the first word of a command, it only works for arguments.

This used to work, probably before I upgraded from 22.1 to 22.2.  Anyone 
know how to get the old behavior back?  Did it use 
comint-dynamic-complete-filename instead of 
shell-dynamic-complete-filename?  The former doesn't check for the 
location in the command, but it also doesn't care whether the file it 
completes to is an executable.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-30 16:57 Barry Margolin [this message]
2008-10-30 19:48 ` shell-mode command completion with slashes Stephen Berman
     [not found] ` <mailman.2518.1225396148.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-31  1:56   ` Barry Margolin

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