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

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> programmable completion is extensively context-sensitive (which is
> pretty much its whole point: it does not just complete file names, but
> also CVS revisions, options and other stuff).

The gdb completions are context sentive as well.  The implementation
uses the complete command that gets the current command line as argument
and lists all completions thereof.  That does not handle all cases
though, there is no trailing context.

> And sending such a command would clobber the command history, too.

In gdb this is solved by defining a special prefix that suppresses
putting the command in the history.  Of course, this is much easier
implemented in gdb since there is a fixed set of commands.

Andreas.

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