GNU bug report logs - #4987
23.1; shell-command: optionally include working dir in prompt

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: trentbuck <at> gmail.com

Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:05:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #10 received at 4987 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: trentbuck <at> gmail.com
Cc: 4987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4987: 23.1; shell-command: optionally include working dir in prompt
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:27:21 +0200

> At http://namazu.org/~tsuchiya/elisp/shell-command.el is an emacs
> library that "enables tab-completion for `shell-command'".
>
> I noticed recently that Emacs does this internally now.  Yay!  But one
> thing shell-command.el did that Emacs 23 doesn't appear to do, is to
> include the working directory in the shell-command and
> dired-do-shell-command prompts.  It'd be neat if Emacs did that, too.

shell-command.el relies on defadvices to implement this.  I think a clean
implementation should be designed to work more like minibuf-eldef.el.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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