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From: Fabian Ezequiel Gallina <galli.87@gmail.com>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Comint: handle raw tab
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:23:51 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABq4mQv3vR+aPW=m_NRaydJxMFe6VdayERdEjP-rsCMvd93Tpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vcsw1rev.fsf@gmail.com>

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2011/9/13 Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com>

>
> IMO native tab completion for subprocess REPLs is a common enough need
> that the basic machinery should be handled by Emacs itself, i.e.
> probably the comint library. I'm somewhat surprised there is no such
> code yet (or is there, outside Emacs perhaps?).
>
>
I agree with the exposed above, many modern REPLs comint can interact with
have TAB completion out of the box. We should use that when it's available
instead of duplicating efforts.


Regards,
Fabián E. Gallina

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-13 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12  3:34 Comint: handle raw tab Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-09-13 12:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-13 13:51   ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-13 15:23     ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina [this message]
2011-09-13 18:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26  1:30         ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina
2011-09-13 15:20   ` Fabian Ezequiel Gallina

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