Subject: Re: bug#7461: 23.2; Gdb only does tab completion inside Emacs when prompt is (gdb)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:01:14 -0500

Rolando Pereira wrote:

> When running gdb inside emacs, either by doing M-x gdb or M-x gud-gdb,
> if the prompt is set to something that isn't "(gdb)" (or similar, see
> the examples below), pressing TAB doesn't do the completion of
> commands, functions or variables.

Thank you for the complete example.

It looks like, after you have changed the prompt, you can set the
local value of comint-prompt-regexp to match it.

More generally, when comint-use-prompt-regexp is nil (which it is by
default), gud.el probably ought not to try and use comint-prompt-regexp.
Instead it should use whatever field properties comint adds.

> Emacs version is: GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
> 2.16.1)
>
> GDB version is: GNU gdb (GDB) 7.2