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bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#51130: 29.0.50; shell completion fails to complete filenames |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Sep 2022 10:27:37 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> The change I introduced tried to preserve as much of the existing
>> completion as possible, by only using the non-fallback pcomplete
>> rules and keeping the existing `shell-filename-completion` and
>> `comint-filename-completion` thingies as the fallback.
>>
>> I don't know that it's the best choice. It was just the
>> conservative choice.
>
> Could just put an additional function at the end of the list there
> that does what pcomplete-completions-at-point does when
> pcomplete-default-completion-function isn't set to #'ignore?
Could be. Tho it feels like adding yet another hack upon more hacks
just because we don't know what the other code does.
[ Which is exactly what I did as well when I set
`pcomplete-default-completion-function` to `ignore`. ]
I wish someone could take the time to try and understand what
`shell-filename-completion` and `comint-filename-completion` do there
really (I mean, I understand what they're supposed to do, but I don't
understand why they're both there), how they compare to what
`pcomplete-default-completion-function` does by default (which should be
very similar), and then fix bug#51130 The Right Way.
Stefan