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Subject: file completion in the shell buffer
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Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 13:43:23 EST
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I'm a big user of the emacs shell and found that file name completion
was a bear.  My solution was to write the following function.

(defun insert-file-name-with-completion (name)
  "Prompts for a file or directory name and inserts that name after point.
The name may be non-existent.  Useful in Shell mode."
  (interactive "FInsert file name: ")
  (insert  name))

I bound it to C-c C-f, and use it whenever a long path name is
required.


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