Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?

[Marius Hofert]

On 2011-11-09, at 16:28 , PJ Weisberg wrote:

> I think you guys are going down the wrong track.
> 
> On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch> 
> wrote:
> > I just figured out that if I start emacs from the Mac's terminal (via 
> > "emacs" which starts /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs) and open 
> > an emacs shell with M-x shell, I can tab-complete a2ps.
> >
> > Hmmm... so the GUI version seems to act weird...
> 
> It sounds to me like OSX's launcher is not setting some environment variable 
> that does get set when you run the terminal.

I'm no expert on this (otherwise I would have figured it out on my own), but it 
sounds reasonable.

>  Possibly $FPATH.

never heard about that. I echo'ed that in the terminal and in the emacs shell 
and obtained an empty line in both cases.

>  I would guess that it's looking for and not finding a function called _a2ps 
> to do the completion.
> 
> -- 
> 
> -PJ