From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "paul r" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Feature request : Tab-completion for 'shell-comand' Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:42:21 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204649068 8415 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2008 16:44:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:44:28 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 04 17:44:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JWaFY-0003eY-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:44:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaEx-00056G-Qx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:43:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaDr-0004Zz-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaDi-0004WC-Pl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JWaDi-0004W8-M2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWaDh-0006xd-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:42:26 -0500 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id a2so2700382ugf.48 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:42:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=nrD81g0Jydw952apNab6ieymAjhX2OlOVOgv6NTgF9s=; b=cOF6c5CdiB5fKBoDNy0i0kWU1Pm3W2Nnnc1+0sC8tTCcKUFZjpCcF70kTodXyIEQ2CSm1ID5zNdl6UfQDRx79ex4eZkpGVqMEFBHvkC4wZQ+u5BBkOokIJNnff51yLVgv0HBrGWPvlZDZFxPhQl8lkWUqmEEDm9A2XitjRSA3l4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=JeW5Y7S3yNqrFjeA6OtqiN8LSMBJyALHF0FxEZaCuX5SpMFl76w4957Jb+H31ThFxQHe/TRVFwhurXWmyYPw5+bFd2ehKCLCqe3uRgtUDXGmdf3ZDCMvctbt0RRux4HdQheegjlq/YTgFpYOsOUTMxh9+ZzW/bVqPdvscTgdOyQ= Original-Received: by 10.67.115.9 with SMTP id s9mr5592734ugm.81.1204648941271; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:42:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.82.175.3 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:42:21 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91297 Archived-At: M-x shell-command, as well as its relatives (shell-command-on-region, grep, grep-find, compile and maybe more), do not provide any kind of completion in the minibuffer. This is a surprising behaviour, because almost any other interactive function prompting for something that can be tab-completed do provide tab-completion. TSUCHIYA Masatoshi wrote an enhancement for it, that can be found http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/elisp/shell-command.el . This code works against current head. What do you think about adding the author to this thread ( if the mailing-list rules allow it ) and discussing a possible inclusion ?