bug#4596: file completion in *shell*

bug#4596: file completion in *shell*

[A. Soare]

I report again a bug that repeated to me many times;

I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z, when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory "X", not from Z, as expected.

To me TAB executes so:

TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command comint-dynamic-complete

Inside comint-dynamic-complete, one executes the hook comint-dynamic-complete-functions, which are

(comint-replace-by-expanded-history comint-dynamic-complete-filename)

I will keep the session opened, and maybe somebody tells me what to report more than that.





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bug#4596: file completion in *shell*

[Kevin Rodgers]

A. Soare wrote:
> I report again a bug that repeated to me many times;
> 
> I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z, when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory "X", not from Z, as expected.
> 
> To me TAB executes so:
> 
> TAB (translated from <tab>) runs the command comint-dynamic-complete
> 
> Inside comint-dynamic-complete, one executes the hook comint-dynamic-complete-functions, which are
> 
> (comint-replace-by-expanded-history comint-dynamic-complete-filename)
> 
> I will keep the session opened, and maybe somebody tells me what to report more than that.

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Kevin Rodgers
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bug#4596: file completion in *shell*

[Glenn Morris]

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"A. Soare" wrote:

> I have a shell opened , and even if I am in the directory /x/y/z,
> when I press <TAB>, it expands the completion from the directory
> "X", not from Z, as expected.

Emacs tries to keep track of which directory you are in, but it is
straightforward to confuse it. Eg:

emacs -Q -f shell
cd ~
alias foobar=cd
foobar /tmp

and Emacs will still think you are in ~/.

So we need to know what you did starting from emacs -Q to confuse it,
before we can say if it is something that can reasonably be fixed.

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bug#4596: file completion in *shell*

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> So we need to know what you did starting from emacs -Q to confuse it,
> before we can say if it is something that can reasonably be fixed.

More information was requested more than a year ago, but was apparently
not given, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the bug still exists,
please reopen the report.

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