From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Status of shell-pcomplete integration? Date: 04 Dec 2002 10:31:05 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87u1hxstta.fsf@orebokech.com> <843cph3fm8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <877ket8ifr.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <84ptsj5z0f.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <873cpf2xs1.fsf@orebokech.com> <84u1hvt7y2.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87r8czqdu6.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> <200212031628.gB3GSuS07618@rum.cs.yale.edu> <87of83qbjp.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038965700 27651 80.91.224.249 (4 Dec 2002 01:35:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 01:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18JORH-0007Bp-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 02:34:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18JOb2-0000ES-00 for ; Wed, 04 Dec 2002 02:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JOOW-0004M1-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JONd-0002Ds-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:31:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JONb-0002A3-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:31:12 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo201.gate.nec.co.jp ([210.143.35.51]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18JONb-000236-00; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 20:31:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.195]) by TYO201.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id gB41V8i20541; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:31:08 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id gB41V7x23649; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:31:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id gB41V6q27078; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:31:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id gB41V6B22755; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:31:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id F0C04370E; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:31:05 +0900 (JST) Original-To: John Wiegley System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87of83qbjp.fsf@alice.dynodns.net> Original-Lines: 18 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:9846 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:9846 John Wiegley writes: > > The behavior can later on be changed, but at first we should just > > concentrate on getting pcomplete to behave "like the current code". > > As long as it gets changed before 21.3 goes out? I tell you, no one > will know its there, and nobody will get the benefit of using it. Maybe so, but you can argue that later. It's a minor issue. [BTW, I tried pcomplete-cycle-completions for a while, and hated it. It makes much less sense in emacs, which can show a list of completions and then restore the screen, than it does in a shell, which can't.] -Miles -- I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and then it's over. --Ian Wolff