From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carlos Pita Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: pcomplete filename on unregistered commands Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 22:01:59 -0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15803"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:JDwJ1m4XS+OdOsCtj8BUnNZIZn4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 11 03:06:02 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZjlR-0003wt-DQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:06:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37386 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZjlP-0000Bx-Mr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:05:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZjka-0000Bb-7I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:05:08 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:55356) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZjkW-0005Zz-Uh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:05:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZjkU-0002cY-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2021 03:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133704 Archived-At: Hi all, in shell-mode there are a number of c-a-p functions registered: comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history shell-environment-variable-completion shell-command-completion shell-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-directory pcomplete-completions-at-point shell-filename-completion comint-filename-completion Most of the time it is pcomplete-completions-at-point the one which returns the completion candidates, and this works great as long as the there is a pcomplete/xxx function registered for the command xxx. Now, many usual commands like cp don't have a pcomplete handler so they behave very poorly regarding completion, take for example: cp this doesn't give me any completion candidate! If I instead do: cp ./ I then get filename completions (although not from pcomplete). I find this behavior very inconvenient since often commands take filenames as arguments and I would prefer filename completion to be triggered by default for commands not known by pcomplete. So what can I do? Is there a way to tell pcomplete to return filename candidates by default? Or perhaps filename completion functions to return candidates even upon an empty prefix? Thank you in advance, Carlos