Subject: bug#12418: emacs 24.2; idlw-shell.el: filename completion in IDL shell is not working

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:24:58 -0400

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Actually, that depends on what comint-dynamic-complete-as-filename was
> used for: if it was used as a *command*, then
> comint-dynamic-complete-filename is a good replacement.  But if it was
> used within something like comint-dynamic-complete-functions, then the
> better replacement is comint-filename-completion.

Could you make the obsolescence message less definitive-sounding then?

> IOW, in the case of idlw-shell.el, the better replacement is indeed
> comint-filename-completion, tho it requires changes in
> idlwave-shell-complete (basically making it an alias to
> completion-at-point and turning its body into a list of functions to put
> on completion-at-point-functions).

Hopefully you feel like doing that (or reopening this report).