1 pcmpl-args – Enhanced shell command completion
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  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, …)


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1.1 Installation
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  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/bzip2'
  • `pcomplete/chgrp'
  • `pcomplete/chown'
  • `pcomplete/gdb'
  • `pcomplete/gzip'
  • `pcomplete/make'
  • `pcomplete/rm'
  • `pcomplete/rmdir'
  • `pcomplete/tar'
  • `pcomplete/time'
  • `pcomplete/which'
  • `pcomplete/xargs'


[Melpa] <https://melpa.org/#/getting-started>


1.2 Defining new completion commands
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  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'.
