From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:07:20 +0900 Organization: NEC Electronics Message-ID: References: <29de18070810190425m497cafbcl42287167677f183a@mail.gmail.com> <87fxmrzo3q.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224571258 29401 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 06:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:40:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 08:41:58 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsAw6-0000Ko-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42992 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsAv1-00046K-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Trace: individual.net WHlLvG4RC03e+EMUyLoAngNr7R/VL4BSiktd67b+hkkfrwmQzS Cancel-Lock: sha1:PMVM2G4X/U+FjbszaV6Yg8zo89c= sha1:n7gCYeXt9JT5xBqWiPzx0WCbfpQ= System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163630 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58969 Archived-At: Lave writes: > Then why the creator didn't just use bash completion? It's quite difficult to do that, mainly because there is no high-level communication channel emacs can use to talk to the shell. It's easy to leave _all_ of the editing/completion to the shell (e.g. term-mode), or _none_ of it (e.g., shell-mode), but it would be very hard to do it half-way. -Miles -- Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.