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bug#4987: 23.1; shell-command: optionally include working dir in prompt
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
bug#4987: 23.1; shell-command: optionally include working dir in prompt |
Date: |
Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:29:20 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> > At http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/elisp/shell-command.el is an emacs
> > library that "enables tab-completion for `shell-command'".
> >
> > I noticed recently that Emacs does this internally now. Yay! But one
> > thing shell-command.el did that Emacs 23 doesn't appear to do, is to
> > include the working directory in the shell-command and
> > dired-do-shell-command prompts. It'd be neat if Emacs did that, too.
>
> shell-command.el relies on defadvices to implement this. I think a clean
> implementation should be designed to work more like minibuf-eldef.el.
On second thought, there is no need to over-complicate this feature.
So we could add a new defcustom to define the prompt format and to
use it in `read-shell-command' to modify the prompt.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/