Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET

[David Kastrup]

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