Re: Status of shell-pcomplete integration?

[Kai Großjohann]

Romain FRANCOISE <address@hidden> writes:

> FWIW, the previous integration (the one that was removed from the
> repository in March) did something more: apparently the buffer had to
> be "setup" for pcomplete.  You can get a more or less usable diff using
>
> cvs diff -r1.109 -r1.108 shell.el

Good.  So let's change pcomplete-cycle-completions to nil at the same
time, to see whether people complain.

I think that would solve Noah's complaint, voiced in
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/emacs-devel/2002-March/006508.html , at
least.

Hmmm...

What's the problem with the following?

(require 'shell)
(define-key shell-mode-map (kbd "TAB") 'pcomplete)
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'pcomplete-shell-setup)

It seems to work.  It does not defer loading of pcomplete until
completion is actually used, but oh, well.

Maybe pcomplete-shell-setup should set pcomplete-cycle-completions to
nil?  But that would make it difficult to override.  Hm.

John, how about setting pcomplete-cycle-completions to nil globally?
That would make it more consistent.
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