From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:43:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBA2101.9010603@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <74F7A456-B7B9-4241-A11D-4EC5CF27DDAC@math.ethz.ch>
Am 08.11.2011 20:34, schrieb Marius Hofert:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with OS: Mac OS X 10.7.2 and Emacs: GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1.
>
> If I open a shell with M-x shell, I can TAB-complete several commands, such as ps2pdf and many others. However, I can't seem to TAB-complete all commands. One exception is a2ps. I installed it, it works perfectly fine, I can TAB-complete it from the Mac's terminal, however, I can't TAB-complete it from the shell opened with M-x shell. The simple question is: Why?
>
> Note that if I type "echo $PATH", I get:
> a) from the Mac's terminal:
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
> b) from the emacs shell:
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
> => exactly the same.
>
> If I type "which a2ps" from the emacs shell, I get: /opt/local/bin/a2ps so the correct place is found, but why is there no TAB-completion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
>
>
AFAIU it might matter, wherefrom you open the shell. It may or will have
it's own (minor-)mode, where TAB completion is provided or not. In
different available python-shells for example, TAB completion might be
performed by different functions.
Call M-x describe-mode from inside shell, to get info which mode is
behind, which keys are set etc,
Cheers,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-08 19:34 Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:43 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2011-11-09 6:48 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 6:56 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:09 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 7:13 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 7:45 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:54 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 8:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 8:34 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 8:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 8:59 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 9:05 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-11 3:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-09 9:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 11:10 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 13:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 15:28 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-11-09 17:02 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:56 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] <mailman.9.1320780886.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-11-09 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <mailman.2976.1320857313.797.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-11-09 17:06 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:28 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:38 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:51 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 18:05 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 18:49 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 18:52 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 21:19 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:46 ` Jonathan Oddie
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