Re: using pcomplete for comint.el/shell.el

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> On Mon Feb 18, Colin writes:

> Well, it turns out that we can't really take the approach of
> creating a proxy function for pcomplete in shell.el, because
> pcomplete looks at last-command to determine its behavior.

If necessary, pcomplete could be changed to use a configurable list of
function symbols that it should test against, in order to determine
whether cycling should apply when the next TAB is hit...

> So, is there any objection to just loading pcomplete with shell.el?

Your patch does not call `pcomplete-shell-setup'.

John