pcmpl-args.el
Enhanced shell completion in Emacs (by JonWaltman)
emacs-native-shell-complete
Completion in shell buffers using native mechanisms (by CeleritasCelery)
| pcmpl-args.el | emacs-native-shell-complete | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 3 | |
| 76 | 97 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 3.6 | |
| about 2 years ago | 5 months ago | |
| Emacs Lisp | Emacs Lisp | |
| - | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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-native-shell-complete
Posts with mentions or reviews of emacs-native-shell-complete.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-18.
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Running Shells and Terminal Emulators in Emacs
I will plug one of my packages that provides native completions in comint buffers. It basically sends tab to the process and collects the output. Works with SQLite and other shells.
- emacs-native-shell-complete: Completion in shell buffers using native mechanisms
- Sending TAB to an external process to get completions.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pcmpl-args.el and emacs-native-shell-complete you can also consider the following projects:
readline-complete - Offers completions in shell mode
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.
emacs-bash-completion - Add programmable bash completion to Emacs shell-mode