Re: Coding systems and file completion for shell on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > Jason Rumney wrote:
> > > Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > > > > > We have also discussed the tab file name completion in a cmdproxy 
> > > > > > *Shell* buffer. This is currently broken. I sent a suggestion to 
> > > > > > fix it, but I have got no feedback whatsoever on this.
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-12/msg01128.html
> > >
> > >
> > > That isn't a suggested fix, it is some code to bind completely new 
> > > functions to some function keys.
> >
> >
> > Yes, but it works. But maybe it interferes with the comint code in a 
> > bad way?
>
> This works too, and is a lot less code:
>
> (setq comint-completion-addsuffix '("\\" " "))
>
>
> The problem with both "solutions" is how to enable them only for 
> shell-mode, and only when the shell being used has dos semantics.


I do not understand. Why not add the code explicitly to shell-mode? (And 
in your case make the variable buffer local to the shell-mode buffer.)