From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Hofert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:13:34 +0100 Message-ID: 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320822830 4708 80.91.229.12 (9 Nov 2011 07:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 07:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 09 08:13:46 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 1RO2Lx-0002nH-81 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:13:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO2Lw-0003OV-4P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:13:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60655) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO2Lq-0003OQ-Df for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:13:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO2Lp-0006zU-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:38081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RO2Lp-0006z5-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:13:37 -0500 Original-Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:13:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 77-58-145-155.dclient.hispeed.ch (77.58.145.155) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.339.1; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:13:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4EBA2713.2070301@easy-emacs.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Originating-IP: [77.58.145.155] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.130.99.26 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:82805 Archived-At: Ahh, okay :-) Here's the output: TAB (translated from ) runs the command completion-at-point, which = is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `minibuffer.el'. It is bound to TAB, . (completion-at-point) Perform completion on the text around point. The completion method is determined by `completion-at-point-functions'. On 2011-11-09, at 08:09 , Andreas R=F6hler wrote: > Am 09.11.2011 07:56, schrieb Marius Hofert: >> Do you mean M-x describe-key TAB? It says: >>=20 >=20 > Sorry, mean >=20 > M-x describe-key RET TAB >=20