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 07:56:49 +0100 Message-ID: <4EBA2431.60602@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> <4EBA2376.7050006@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320821822 31302 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 06:57:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 06:57:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 07:56:58 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 1RO25i-00078f-Ec for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:56:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO25i-000896-48 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO25d-00088z-6J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO25c-0003jC-9y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:56:53 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:55394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO25b-0003iz-UV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:56:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.27] (brln-4db9a0be.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.160.190]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LphYc-1Ql8dA2lKI-00flhK; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:56:50 +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: <4EBA2376.7050006@easy-emacs.de> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:lZe4IBtCQ7ppfUh08sWNVbBBHyc/sDCvYqJ2vJND2Re 06zorUo8NbkI3obZiFCVAuCxMLUC57FlA2Yjm/BAtoc5fxYqGX kd7VUW/Dnl8W8pfFW9UkiRkjLQR0U6TQg0DryjG55qcWP4F+S6 VH349TSvmrany6ihAMj2ZG0qvd839K6oNFOCSv6lo+cvsIfbux UQc2+1hhd9eXc7TQqEXdL3mWZkBxEe85Gr+GHjqjkSMLmZBb6q tEn3aVgSLltQyI0ghC4ReZAT9Dz9g61NmYSJsBXwXT3BIXrLgb FUw8uldvRme8yI2B2n84WTFRNdUwLyMHlY4ArBQGNhzgIzFW2l ugL5aymC8HL8DOWbPHxm7R2pGuLMSWzEf+XU+hEP1 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.17.10 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:82803 Archived-At: Am 09.11.2011 07:53, schrieb Andreas Röhler: > 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 > > > typo, right is: M-x describe-key TAB