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address@hidden: some other observations on pcomplete]
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
address@hidden: some other observations on pcomplete] |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 14:32:41 -0700 (MST) |
I think someone is fixing the first of these problems,
but the rest seem severe enough that I think we should
revert the change and put Shell mode completion back the
way it was.
Could someone please make that change?
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From: Noah Friedman <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
CC: address@hidden
Subject: some other observations on pcomplete
Reply-To: Noah Friedman <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 16:31:22 -0800 (PST)
Some other things I've observed about the new completion behavior:
* It doesn't complete command names or variable names anymore, e.g. I
cannot type "$HOME/ma<TAB>" and have it complete to "$HOME/mail".
As far as I can tell this is because the tab key has been rebound in the
new version from comint-dynamic-complete to shell-pcomplete, but I don't
know if shell-pcomplete was supposed to be using the old variable/command
completion helpers.
* It's inconsistent with the rest of emacs. Instead of doing partial
completion and then showing me a list of completing matches, it sometimes
does a full completion of just one alternative, which may lead me to
believe that is the only match.
* It's not even consistent with itself. Sometimes it does a full
completion (if there are only a small number of possible completions) but
other times it displays a completion buffer. That goes even further to
reinforce my expectation that when a full completion is made, that's the
only available completion!
* Sometimes I want to cd into a directory so I type some prefix of the
directory name. Because of the two points above, I don't know if that's
the only match or not so I hit tab twice. Now, since that is the only
match, I get a list of completions in the subdirectory.
So completion on a directory name sometimes replaces a directory name
with another complete match, and sometimes it descends into the directory
and produces a completion list on files below. Behavior is surprising.
Overall I find the new behavior confusing and surprising. Perhaps this new
mode emulates the completion behavior of some shell I've never used, but I
think emacs should be more self-consistent. I would suggest changing the
defaults to behave as much as possible in a manner consistent with
completion in the rest of emacs.
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