[OS X Emacs] Eshell completion...

[Robert P. Goldman]

No, I have never seen completion cycling to work in aquamacs. I was quite surprised when someone on #emacs IRC claimed it worked for him on FSF emacs w/o customization. He said he tested it during our IRC discussion.

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On Sep 11, 2013, at 4:54, Iliya Lefterov <iliya.lefterov at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
> Pittsburgh, PA
> USA
> 
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