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bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames
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From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames |
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Date: |
Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:19:07 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> * lisp/shell.el: Require and use pcomplete.
>> (shell-dynamic-complete-functions): Add pcomplete-completions-at-point.
>> (shell-completion-vars): Set pcomplete-default-completion-function.
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>> Just leaving pcomplete-default-completion-function alone seems to give
>> better results in shell-mode (after testing very briefly), so I'm not
>> sure why that was added.
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> It was added because leaving `pcomplete-default-completion-function`
> alone means that the functions after `pcomplete-completions-at-point` in
> `shell-dynamic-complete-functions` are not used any more.
Uhm... I don't follow the logic at all.
pcomplete-default-completion-function is documented to be applied if
everything else has failed to do completion, isn't it?