From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Hofert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:10:12 +0100 Message-ID: <432CCEEF-A758-484F-8F6F-9745E05212A0@math.ethz.ch> References: <74F7A456-B7B9-4241-A11D-4EC5CF27DDAC@math.ethz.ch> <4EBA2101.9010603@easy-emacs.de> <40781343-DF59-4B4A-A4A6-6E50DEE3ADBB@math.ethz.ch> <4EBA2376.7050006@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA2713.2070301@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA2B13.9090709@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA39DE.6040903@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA3CB6.70503@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA46AF.6040501@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320837029 32425 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 11:10:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 12:10:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RO62z-0008TL-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:10:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO62y-0000RG-Gp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:10:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO62q-0000Qs-AX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO62p-0006qQ-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:10:16 -0500 Original-Received: from edge10.ethz.ch ([82.130.75.186]:30090) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO62p-0006qK-1K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) by edge10.ethz.ch (82.130.75.186) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:10:08 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.221] (129.132.146.66) by CAS12.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:10:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4EBA46AF.6040501@easy-emacs.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.146.66] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.130.75.186 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82815 Archived-At: On 2011-11-09, at 10:23 , Andreas R=F6hler wrote: > Am 09.11.2011 09:59, schrieb Marius Hofert: >>>=20 >>> so you could try same play looking for contents of >>>=20 >>> comint-dynamic-complete-functions >>=20 >> I obtain (in both cases): >>=20 >> comint-dynamic-complete-functions is a variable defined in = `comint.el'. >> Its value is >> (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) >>=20 >> Local in buffer *shell*; global value is >> (comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history comint-filename-completion) >=20 > IIUC completion stops when first function in list succeeds >=20 > you could put functions one by one into edebug, thus being noticed = which one was active and how it went that's a bit (or rather far) above my emacs abilities. Can you give me = short instructions what to do?=20 The simple solution is to just start emacs from the terminal. I'm not = sure if this has any disadvantages, though (but they should arise when = using emacs from the terminal for some time)=