Re: Es and autocompleting

[egnor@ofb.net (Dan Egnor)]

In article <es.cWeikF5YR1@iadd.jivetech.com>, Paul Haahr wrote:
>I still don't think completion should be in the shell, but that's an
>architecture issue, not functionality.  Which is why I've run all my
>shells from inside emacs for the past five or so years.

Could you expand on this belief?
(Or point me at some place where you already have done so.)

It seems to me (probably naively) that the shell is in the best position
to know the context of the current command, and therefore to be able to
predict the set of possible choices.  For example, the current working
directory is known only to the shell, and the set of valid pathnames
depends on that information.

>(Running emacs probably makes me a heretic on this list, and certainly
>it is a big change from what I advocated years ago.)

What changed your mind?

Dan