From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:34:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlirqqduk.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9.1320780886.798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> If I type "which a2ps" from the emacs shell, I get: /opt/local/bin/a2ps so
> the correct place is found, but why is there no TAB-completion?
Probably because you set $PATH from your shell initialization files, but
those aren't run before running Emacs. So the $PATH that your shell
uses is different from the one Emacs uses (and the tab completion in
M-x shell is performed by Emacs, not by the shell).
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 1:34 UTC|newest]
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2011-11-09 1:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2011-11-09 17:06 ` Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:28 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:38 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 17:51 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 18:05 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 18:49 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 18:52 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-09 21:19 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 17:46 ` Jonathan Oddie
2011-11-08 19:34 Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:43 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 6:48 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:53 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 6:56 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:09 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 7:13 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 7:45 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 7:54 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 8:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 8:34 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 8:41 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 8:59 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 9:05 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-11 3:03 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-11-09 9:23 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 11:10 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 13:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2011-11-09 15:28 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-11-09 17:02 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 6:56 ` Andreas Röhler
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