From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: 16197@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16197: 24.3.50; no completion on commands following "sudo" in shell and eshell
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:26:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzjnblcng.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n5kfh0x.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Sat, 04 Jan 2014 06:33:02 +0100")
> Don't know what */rsh does, but */xargs is actually not working.
Aha!
> Well I didn't read */xargs, but here are the problems:
> - `pcomplete-command-name' actually is always returning the first arg of
> command line e.g for "sudo apt-get" it is returning "sudo".
> - `shell-command-completion' is trying to complete after what
> `shell-backward-command' returns, which is actually the first command
> near prompt or "[&;|]+ ", so when you try to complete after sudo or
> xargs, you call the completion against "sudo" or "xargs" which returns
> nothing of course.
Can you describe those problems in terms of user-visible behavior
(i.e. a recipe) so I can better understand what the code does (and
should do instead)?
> Actually the fix made to these two functions is affecting only sudo, but
> I can easily fix it to handle also 'xargs'.
That would be nice.
> Don't think so, I think the problem should be fixed at another level as
> descripted above.
I missed the description, I'm afraid.
> https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/emacs-tv-config/blob/master/pcomplete-extension.el
Not sure what I should look at there.
Can you send it as a patch against pcmpl-unix.el to fix pcomplete/xargs
(and add pcomplete/sudo at the same time)?
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-04 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-20 8:18 bug#16197: 24.3.50; no completion on commands following "sudo" in shell and eshell Thierry Volpiatto
2013-12-23 8:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-12-23 10:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-12-24 6:59 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-12-24 10:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-01-03 22:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-04 5:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-01-04 7:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2014-01-04 20:26 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-01-05 7:35 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2020-09-25 17:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-26 13:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-26 22:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-27 12:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-28 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-28 11:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-07 13:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2020-09-25 10:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-07 15:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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