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From: PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com>
To: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
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 07:28:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJsNXTmVLqg3AvrBbQRH1HLk+713dfV=Szvr6XkXcbFVOJCwww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DDB9D06F-02CD-47E5-BCF2-D1288186D37F@math.ethz.ch>

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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.  Possibly $FPATH.  I
would guess that it's looking for and not finding a function called _a2ps
to do the completion.

-- 

-PJ

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 15:28 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2011-11-09 17:02                     ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09  6:56       ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found] <mailman.9.1320780886.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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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