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Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?
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Marius Hofert |
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Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands? |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 18:02:48 +0100 |
On 2011-11-09, at 16:28 , PJ Weisberg wrote:
> I think you guys are going down the wrong track.
>
> On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
> wrote:
> > I just figured out that if I start emacs from the Mac's terminal (via
> > "emacs" which starts /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs) and open
> > an emacs shell with M-x shell, I can tab-complete a2ps.
> >
> > Hmmm... so the GUI version seems to act weird...
>
> It sounds to me like OSX's launcher is not setting some environment variable
> that does get set when you run the terminal.
I'm no expert on this (otherwise I would have figured it out on my own), but it
sounds reasonable.
> Possibly $FPATH.
never heard about that. I echo'ed that in the terminal and in the emacs shell
and obtained an empty line in both cases.
> I would guess that it's looking for and not finding a function called _a2ps
> to do the completion.
>
> --
>
> -PJ
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, (continued)
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Kevin Rodgers, 2011/11/10
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Marius Hofert, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, PJ Weisberg, 2011/11/09
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?,
Marius Hofert <=
- Re: Why is TAB-completion in shell not working for some commands?, Andreas Röhler, 2011/11/09