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Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
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Marius Hofert |
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Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? |
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Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:54:23 +0100 |
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...
On 2011-11-09, at 08:45 , Marius Hofert wrote:
>>
>> so you have completion at least in this shell (?)
>>
>
> Not for a2ps for example, only for other commands (as I wrote in the
> beginning).
>
> If I type a2p + TAB in the Mac's terminal, I get:
> a2p a2p-5.12 a2p5.10 a2p5.12 a2ping a2ps
>
> The same in the emacs shell:
> Possible completions are:
> a2p a2p5.10
> a2p5.12 a2ping
>
> => a2p-5.12 and a2ps are missing [although I can execute, e.g., a2ps].
> I can also use which a2ps in the emacs shell and correctly obtain:
> /opt/local/bin/a2ps
> Also, both PATHs are the same (in the terminal and in the emacs shell).
>
> I installed a2ps via Macports (package manager) and it correctly put in the
> /opt/local/bin path to PATH.
>
> echo $PATH
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
>
>
> The only thing I did was:
>
> Macports defines the following line in .profile:
> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
>
> I just added the following to .profile:
> export
> PATH=/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/:/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:$PATH
> The reason for this is that with /Applications/Emacs.app... in the beginning
> of PATH, I can type "emacs" in the terminal and start the same emacs as I
> installed (the GUI version), not the very old emacs that natively comes with
> Mac OS and that is /user/bin/emacs
>
> The main problem is that I can't figure out which commands work with TAB
> completion and which don't. If not all work as in the terminal and if I don't
> know which work, this is quite tedious to work with (because one assumes that
> the command one is trying to complete is not installed etc.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
>
- Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/08
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?,
Marius Hofert <=
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Kevin Rodgers, 2011/11/10
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, PJ Weisberg, 2011/11/09