From: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
To: PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:02:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9DE954E5-A870-4C0C-BF35-11D794B44D58@math.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJsNXTmVLqg3AvrBbQRH1HLk+713dfV=Szvr6XkXcbFVOJCwww@mail.gmail.com>
On 2011-11-09, at 16:28 , PJ Weisberg wrote:
> I think you guys are going down the wrong track.
>
> On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > I just figured out that if I start emacs from the Mac's terminal (via "emacs" which starts /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs) and open an emacs shell with M-x shell, I can tab-complete a2ps.
> >
> > Hmmm... so the GUI version seems to act weird...
>
> It sounds to me like OSX's launcher is not setting some environment variable that does get set when you run the terminal.
I'm no expert on this (otherwise I would have figured it out on my own), but it sounds reasonable.
> Possibly $FPATH.
never heard about that. I echo'ed that in the terminal and in the emacs shell and obtained an empty line in both cases.
> I would guess that it's looking for and not finding a function called _a2ps to do the completion.
>
> --
>
> -PJ
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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
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 [this message]
2011-11-09 6:56 ` Andreas Röhler
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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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