Re: shell-mode command completion with slashes

[Stephen Berman]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:57:22 -0400 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I'm running Emacs 22.2.50 on OS X 10.5.5, and I use shell mode 
> extensively.  I don't have "." in my $PATH, so if I want to run a 
> program in the current directory I need to type "./program-name".  I'd 
> like to be able to type "./prog<TAB>" and have it complete it, but it 
> doesn't.  I looked at the source code of shell-dynamic-complete-command, 
> and it explicitly checks for "~" or "/" in the word being completed, and 
> gives up.  And shell-dynamic-complete-filename gives up if it's being 
> used for the first word of a command, it only works for arguments.
>
> This used to work, probably before I upgraded from 22.1 to 22.2.  Anyone 
> know how to get the old behavior back?  Did it use 
> comint-dynamic-complete-filename instead of 
> shell-dynamic-complete-filename?  The former doesn't check for the 
> location in the command, but it also doesn't care whether the file it 
> completes to is an executable.

This was caused by this change:

2008-04-03  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>

        * shell.el (shell-dynamic-complete-filename): New fun.
        (shell-dynamic-complete-functions): Use it.

This was after the release of 22.2 but backported.  It was fixed by this
change:

2008-07-23  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>

        * shell.el (shell-dynamic-complete-functions):
        Use comint-dynamic-complete-filename as well (bug#361).

and that is in 22.3.

Steve Berman