Re: Can shell-mode be a little more smart ? (About completion)

[Miles Bader]

Lave <lave.wang.w@gmail.com> writes:
> Then why the creator didn't just use bash completion?

It's quite difficult to do that, mainly because there is no high-level
communication channel emacs can use to talk to the shell.

It's easy to leave _all_ of the editing/completion to the shell (e.g.
term-mode), or _none_ of it (e.g., shell-mode), but it would be very
hard to do it half-way.

-Miles

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