Re: *shell* TAB *Completions* fooled by $PWD/

[David Kastrup]

miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) writes:

> David.Kastrup@t-online.de (David Kastrup) writes:
> > Well, perhaps one could make C-u TAB ask the shell itself for
> > an update on the shell's environment in some manner?
> 
> This is a hard problem to solve,

Well, that's why I wanted to use a prefix argument in order to tell
Emacs it better ask the shell itself for the environment variable.

> and I suspect that very few people are bitten by it (the sort of
> person who uses env vars like that is also usually clueful enough to
> realize why it won't work in some cases).
> 
> We can add a hack for PWD if that makes people feel fuzzy.

Don't think that would be much needed: after all, one can use ~
expansion instead.

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