[OS X Emacs] Eshell completion...

[Iliya Lefterov]

Hi Bob

Have you ever seen this working in Aquamacs?

Thanks,

Iliya

On Friday, September 6, 2013, Robert P. Goldman wrote:

> I was asking about eshell completion on #emacs the other day, and got
> some results I don't understand.
>
> For me (Aquamacs 3.0 alpha), eshell filename completion works as follows:
>
> 1.  I type a prefix
> 2.  I type tab
> 3.  Eshell completes to what it thinks was the most recently referenced
> name.
> 4.  I cannot cycle through alternatives, so I swear a lot and
> c-m-backspace to kill the stupid completion.
>
> I have checked this, and I see the same behavior when I run Aquamacs w/o
> customizations.
>
> My interlocutor, on FSF emacs 24.3.x has cycling completions, and
> working that way w/o customizations.
>
> The behavior I see *seems* to be what is described in the EmacsWiki page
> about eshell completion, although that page is not clear about cycling
> through completions.
>
> Does anyone have a happy eshell completion set up?  Is this magically
> fixed by some more recent version of eshell?
>
> Thanks!
> r
>
>
>
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Iliya Lefterov, MD, PhD,
University of Pittsburgh,
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