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

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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,

> It would most likely have to be another key, because shell.el cannot know if
> the command is sent to bash or to some other application, so it could only
> be the user's choice to either get local completion or to send "prefix string
> plus TAB" to the application.

BTW, maybe we can do it the way `gdb' does it: instead of sending TAB, we
send a "list_all_completions" command, presuming that bash offers such
a function.


        Stefan