Re: using pcomplete for comint.el/shell.el

[Colin Walters]

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 17:49, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Sounds good.  On a related note, I really would like it if we could
> make a `read-shell-command' that provides pcomplete completion for
> things like M-! and friends.

That would be nice.  It shouldn't be too hard.

> Could you expand on that ?  What kind of breakage ?
> Can it be avoided ?

Hm, I appear to have been on extra crack when I wrote that; it won't
break backwards compatibility at all.  

So, if there aren't any objections, I'll just go ahead and install this.