Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?

[Marius Hofert]

> 
> so you could try same play looking for contents of
> 
> comint-dynamic-complete-functions

I obtain (in both cases):

comint-dynamic-complete-functions is a variable defined in `comint.el'.
Its value is
(comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history shell-environment-variable-completion 
shell-command-completion shell-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-directory 
pcomplete-completions-at-point shell-filename-completion 
comint-filename-completion)

Local in buffer *shell*; global value is 
(comint-c-a-p-replace-by-expanded-history comint-filename-completion)


  This variable is potentially risky when used as a file local variable.

Documentation:
List of functions called to perform completion.
Works like `completion-at-point-functions'.
See also `comint-dynamic-complete'.

This is a good thing to set in mode hooks.

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