From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:53:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4EBA2376.7050006@easy-emacs.de> References: <74F7A456-B7B9-4241-A11D-4EC5CF27DDAC@math.ethz.ch> <4EBA2101.9010603@easy-emacs.de> <40781343-DF59-4B4A-A4A6-6E50DEE3ADBB@math.ethz.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320821637 30387 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 06:53:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 06:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Marius Hofert Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 07:53:54 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 1RO22j-0006K7-W3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:53:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56746 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO22j-0006It-7d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:53:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48801) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO22e-0006Io-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO22d-00035p-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:53:48 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:53257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO22d-00031o-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:53:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9a0be.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.160.190]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap3) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LfSYr-1QZq2Q1X57-00p3OB; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:53:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110920 SUSE/3.1.15 Thunderbird/3.1.15 In-Reply-To: <40781343-DF59-4B4A-A4A6-6E50DEE3ADBB@math.ethz.ch> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:YvRQ6JPzWUR/5eRraNN8SCABLdsmQjbQysP1OCfMube uk8Z/ODJwowdYmjjn5bC0t38XwAalt/NqwTsbmTaWY4kdjoK+3 jXeaGGmQfd1OR9RaY4+D6+YblAalXT/t0KgTAheuWFT1sByNcF K7lTepswm/jzsZkB16iSHwz2R1NWR3nZJpC96S12/ElnVq68O9 1/VIbz5T1ZhmLD3S5NwdXDIneX6FIuSXAlS74PsaanChaxA9/l cG4uX4P5bv7N0X/MhAP7Vz7/vEVej5OjL62GDhttdZen7xEGaA fB5CBi6mMKmIO8qWbmLTXyHRTrJ2FonDtwY+vMXAhi0iRWacdk tgXeX1/Q59HirXOvdi5f/44vLP6OrA3CIqxihi2oQ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.9 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:82801 Archived-At: Am 09.11.2011 07:48, schrieb Marius Hofert: >> 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 > > Hi Andreas, > > thanks a lot for helping. Here is the output of M-x describe-mode: > > Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption Autopair > Autopair-Global Blink-Cursor Column-Number Delete-Selection Desktop-Save > Diff-Auto-Refine File-Name-Shadow Font-Lock Global-Font-Lock Global-Visual-Line > Line-Number Menu-Bar Mouse-Wheel Shell-Dirtrack Show-Paren Tooltip > Transient-Mark Visual-Line Yas/Global > > Cheers, > > Marius what says M-s describe-key TAB