pcmpl-args extends option and argument completion of shell commands read by Emacs. It is intended to make shell completion in Emacs comparable to the rather excellent completion provided by both Bash and Zsh.
This package uses pcomplete to define completion handlers which are
used whenever shell completion is performed. This includes when
commands are read in the minibuffer via shell-command (M-!) or in
shell-mode.
Completion support is provided for many different commands including:
- GNU core utilities (ls, rm, mv, date, sort, cut, printf, …)
- Built-in shell commands (if, test, time, …)
- Various GNU/Linux commands (find, xargs, grep, man, tar, …)
- Version control systems (bzr, git, hg, …)
To use this package, install pcmpl-args via your package manager from Melpa and add the following to your init.el:
(require 'pcmpl-args)Note: This package redefines the following functions:
pcomplete/bzip2pcomplete/chgrppcomplete/chownpcomplete/gdbpcomplete/gzippcomplete/makepcomplete/rmpcomplete/rmdirpcomplete/tarpcomplete/timepcomplete/whichpcomplete/xargs
This package contains a number of utilities for defining new
pcomplete completion commands:
- pcmpl-args-pcomplete
- Can be used to define completion for commands that have complex option and argument parsing.
- pcmpl-args-pcomplete-on-help
- Completion via parsing the output
of
COMMAND --help. - pcmpl-args-pcomplete-on-man
- Completion via parsing the output
of
man COMMAND.