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 10:23:59 +0100 Message-ID: <4EBA46AF.6040501@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> <4EBA2713.2070301@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA2B13.9090709@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA39DE.6040903@easy-emacs.de> <4EBA3CB6.70503@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: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320830653 21420 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 09:24:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 09:24:13 +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 10:24:10 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 1RO4O9-0002lj-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:24:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55099 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO4O8-0002cr-Ra for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:24:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO4O4-0002cV-LG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO4O3-0004ij-TT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:50821) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO4O3-0004iH-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:24:03 -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 0Lwnl2-1QrCUB3FWK-016ccY; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:24:01 +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: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:fJHeeDmpKp86pxV7ZjtVK4JOqNeJfmWA7JOO2kpn11Z wQyBc3a9T9t58z+7Ufyh13zdzVWG47aJmdWoJHq2Pw+l2AlW8a RfphGIZk397BrWN9ZkQZWPijlnrbmdCvJWloma+uAbDC/Ia111 67Fi+yg19MRY1ho1fhDqvIfmZrcztXSBxjb1bIbs5xUJFHUjUJ jp3A66kkqKWcYvKxd0YoJC/pN2FwGyxMf7JpOpmeCBqjKUMFWU c1u/mqhkgtc+UQ6tjTKUB3QX5mtqdMi9ZCvRYjZeAofLiRwkgA KzPswY0VX88ZaORim+iO1CLyMPRTgNqBiToZHzsz0+0kFBALRP PPk2FNuOxMpEQJVmiUazdwcbknHTz3FThSclPKH8N 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:82814 Archived-At: Am 09.11.2011 09:59, schrieb Marius Hofert: >> >> so you could try same play looking for contents of >> >> comint-dynamic-complete-functions > > I obtain (in both cases): > > 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) > > Local in buffer *shell*; global value is > (comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history comint-filename-completion) IIUC completion stops when first function in list succeeds you could put functions one by one into edebug, thus being noticed which one was active and how it went