Re: Proposal for shell completion in M-x shell RET

[Andreas Schwab]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> The way this would work would be when TAB is pressed to send the
> partial line up to the cursor as input to the shell, followed by TAB,
> then capture the output from bash and interpret it (either inserting
> completed output, or offering a completion menu).

Command line editing is disabled in the inferior shell.  If you want to
enable it you'll have to make sure all literal control characters are
preceded by the quote character before sending the line to the shell.
You'll also have to enable echoing to be able to capture anything.

Andreas.

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