From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: "ISHIKAWA,chiaki" <ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode.
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:49:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161009184049476560792@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51ed4bfc-fbb1-9c29-afe9-fafabab3b7ce@yk.rim.or.jp>
ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote:
> However, due to various reasons, I prefer to run bash inside Emacs's shell
> buffer. It is easy to copy&paste the result of bash output and reuse
> commands is one reason. (I am so used to keyboard and copy&paste using mouse
> or other pointing device takes much longer.)
>
> Unfortunately, bash's completion feature does not work in Emacs shell mode.
> Obviously, [TAB] is stolen by Emacs for its own handling of TAB character.
> Emacs's tab completion for filenames works great.
> But I would like Bash's completion somehow works, too.
>
> Is there a way?
> Am I missing the obvious?
> (Does using eshell mode helps?)
You mention emacs shell mode. But if you want bash to handle the
completion then I think maybe you want emacs term mode with bash.
Using term mode is different from using shell mode. But you get
exactly the bash features you wish.
M-x term
Note that most C-x keys are remapped to C-c inside that buffer.
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Terminal-emulator.html#Terminal-emulator
Keys are mapped:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Term-Mode.html#Term-Mode
The buffer is allocated a separate tty. The result is that most keys
are passed through directly to bash and therefore all bash completion
works from bash without emacs in between.
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-10 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-08 19:14 Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode ISHIKAWA,chiaki
2016-10-09 18:11 ` Dan Hitt
2016-10-10 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-10 14:05 ` Dan Hitt
2016-10-10 14:13 ` Dan Hitt
2016-10-11 1:02 ` Bob Proulx
2016-10-11 0:59 ` Bob Proulx
2016-10-11 12:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-10-10 0:49 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2016-10-10 13:40 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2016-10-10 23:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-10-12 0:25 ` ISHIKAWA,chiaki
2016-10-12 18:50 ` Oleksandr Gavenko
2016-10-19 1:12 ` Robert Thorpe
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