From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net>
Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switch eshell to simple bash-style completion?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 16:57:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fubexp51.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505607344.30946.2.camel@qlfiles.net> (Christopher Howard's message of "Sat, 16 Sep 2017 16:15:44 -0800")
>>>>> "CH" == Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net> writes:
CH> Hi, I've been enjoying using eshell more and more, but I can't get used to
CH> the default completion method where it picks the most recently modified
CH> and then cycles through. Can I make it act like bash and just complete up
CH> to the last unambiguous letter? I see some relevant looking variables, but
CH> am not sure what to do with them. I am running Emacs 24.5.1.
You could try setting eshell-cmpl-cycle-cutoff-length to a low value, like 1.
--
John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-22 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-17 0:15 Switch eshell to simple bash-style completion? Christopher Howard
2017-09-17 0:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2017-09-22 23:57 ` John Wiegley [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m2fubexp51.fsf@newartisans.com \
--to=jwiegley@gmail.com \
--cc=christopher.howard@qlfiles.net \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.