Re: Switching branches and TAB

[Barry OReilly]

> I am using ClearCase as a source control and emacs for eshell. If I pick
a view
> (similar to changing branches) before launching emacs&, when I am typing
a file
> path in eshell, i can press tab to finish the path name for folders and
files.
> However, if i launch emacs& and then set the view, the ability to press
tab to
> finsih the path name does not work for some files. This also occurs when
> setting to a different view in eshell.
>
> So whenever I would want to change views, I could start up a new emacs&
to
> avoid this problem. Is there someway around doing this?

I'm also in the unfortunate position of using that atrocity of a VCS.

When you set dynamic view, a new csh-like shell is started. If you started
Emacs before that, it forked from the parent shell so has no visibility of
the new shell. You could run xterm&, set view, switch to the new xterm and
find you won't see your view's files for the same reason.

I wouldn't expect any issue in snapshot views.