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Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs
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ISHIKAWA,chiaki |
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Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode. |
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Sun, 9 Oct 2016 04:14:23 +0900 |
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Hi,
I have been using GNU emacs more than 30 years and thank you for
maintaining the great package.
I have a question.
Bash, the GNU shell interpreter has a feature called completion, and
over the years, people have created various completion databases for
many commands which are useful.
Case in point.
I just noticed the source control system called mercurial (known as "hg"
with its main command) has a very nice bash completion database.
The completion understands where the various so called MERCURIAL's patch
queues are stored and thus can offer the alternatives quite easily.
e.g.
After including
. /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/hg
(I am using Debian GNU/Linux and the above is where the completion code
for hg is stored.)
I can do the following inside a bash on an ordinary console.
$ hg qq [TAB]
expands to
$ hg qqueue
another couple of [TABS] expands to
--create TEST patches
--delete TEST-Q pristine
--list one-letter-C-locale submission
--purge partial4upload submission1
--rename partial4upload-1
$ hg qqueue
hitting pa[TAB] expands to
$hg qqueue pa
partial4upload partial4upload-1 patches
ishikawa@ip030:/NREF-COMM-CENTRAL/comm-central/mozilla$ hg qqueue pa
Very nice.
However, due to various reasons, I prefer to run bash inside Emacs's
shell buffer. It is easy to copy&paste the result of bash output and
reuse commands is one reason. (I am so used to keyboard and copy&paste
using mouse or other pointing device takes much longer.)
Unfortunately, bash's completion feature does not work in Emacs shell mode.
Obviously, [TAB] is stolen by Emacs for its own handling of TAB character.
Emacs's tab completion for filenames works great.
But I would like Bash's completion somehow works, too.
Is there a way?
Am I missing the obvious?
(Does using eshell mode helps?)
TIA
- Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode.,
ISHIKAWA,chiaki <=
Re: Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode., Bob Proulx, 2016/10/09
Re: Question: Is there any way to use the bash completion feature from Emacs shell mode., Oleksandr Gavenko, 2016/10/10