pcmpl-args.el
Enhanced shell completion in Emacs (by JonWaltman)
emacs-bash-completion
Add programmable bash completion to Emacs shell-mode (by szermatt)
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0.0 | 4.0 | |
about 2 years ago | 12 months ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pcmpl-args.el
Posts with mentions or reviews of pcmpl-args.el.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.
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How to TAB-complete ripgrep command-line options when typing in consult-ripgrep?
Searching suggested me https://github.com/JonWaltman/pcmpl-args.el, but looking at the README, I still don't have a clue how to use it.
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Running Shells and Terminal Emulators in Emacs
I've been using pcmpl-args which parses man pages (like zsh and fish do) to generate completions. This approach is comprehensive and shell-independent, but the pcomplete side of things is a bit of a mess.
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Correcting Typos and Misspellings with Abbrev
Command argument completion (with pcomplete + pcmpl-args) works as expected.
- pcmpl-args.el: Enhanced shell completion in Emacs
emacs-bash-completion
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-bash-completion.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.
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How to TAB-complete ripgrep command-line options when typing in consult-ripgrep?
For a long one as --ignore-file-case-insensitive, having shell-like TAB completion definitely makes typing it more bearable, like what https://github.com/szermatt/emacs-bash-completion provides in the screenshot for shell-command prompt.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pcmpl-args.el and emacs-bash-completion you can also consider the following projects:
readline-complete - Offers completions in shell mode
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
emacs-native-shell-complete - Completion in shell buffers using native mechanisms
projectile - Project Interaction Library for Emacs
shx-for-emacs - An Emacs shell-mode (and comint-mode) extension that enables displaying small plots and graphics and lets users write shell commands in Emacs Lisp.