Variable: eshell-default-completion-function

eshell-default-completion-function is a customizable variable defined in em-cmpl.el.gz.

Value

#[0 "\300\301\302\211\211$\205\f�\202��\207"
    [pcomplete--here
     #[0 "\302      \"A\303\304\303\305\306#\"\207"
	 [eshell-cmpl-command-name-function
	  eshell-command-completions-alist assoc nil pcomplete-entries
	  make-closure
	  #[257
	    "\302
!\206�\301\203�\303\301\"\205�\300?\206�\300
!\207"
	    [V0 V1 file-directory-p string-match] 4
	    ("/home/eliz/git/emacs/pretest/lisp/pcomplete.elc" . 14203)]]
	 8]
     nil]
    5]

Documentation

Function called when no completion rule can be found.

This function is used to generate completions for every argument.

Its value is assigned to pcomplete-default-completion-function locally after eshell starts.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/eshell/em-cmpl.el.gz
(defcustom eshell-default-completion-function
  (lambda ()
    (while (pcomplete-here
            (pcomplete-dirs-or-entries
             (cdr (assoc (funcall eshell-cmpl-command-name-function)
                         eshell-command-completions-alist))))))
  (eshell-cmpl--custom-variable-docstring 'pcomplete-default-completion-function)
  :type (get 'pcomplete-default-completion-function 'custom-type))