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Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:10:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Should be doable. Command line editing is necessary for completion?
>
> TAB completion is part of line editing.
>
>>> You'll also have to enable echoing to be able to capture anything.
>>
>> Hm. Completion is not really echoing.
>
> If the terminal is on -echo state then readline does not echo anything
> besides the initial prompt.
Checked it. If there is no unique completion, the completion list
appears, but if a unique completion is performed, no echoing happens.
At least with the version of bash I am using. So you are right: one
would have to turn on echoing on the tty at least while one is fishing
for completions.
--
David Kastrup