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.
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-PJ
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next prev 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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