Re: eshell: Support old-style completion and cycling completion?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Usually, I know and love the fact that hitting TAB completes as far
> as it can, then offers the list of completions.
>
> But sometimes, I think it might be nice to cycle the completions
> instead.  So I tried a naive approach:
>
> (defun kai-eshell-pcomplete-cycling ()
>   "Like `pcomplete', but turn on cycling explicitly."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((eshell-cmpl-cycle-completions t))
>     (pcomplete)))
>
> Then I bound this to a key.  No dice.


Does eshell use the normal completion mechanism (i.e. does it display the
*Completions* buffer when there is more than one possible completion)?

If so, my minibuffer-complete-cycle.el package may be useful:


http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3B6ED00C.E937D0B3%40ihs.com



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