Bash autocompletion in Emacs shell-mode

Question

In the GNOME Terminal, Bash does smart auto-completion. For example

apt-get in

becomes

apt-get install
         


        

Answer 1

In the emacs shell, it's actually emacs doing the auto-completion, not bash. If the shell and emacs are out of sync (e.g. by using pushd, popd or some bash user function that changes the shell's current directory), then auto-completion stops working.

To fix this, just type 'dirs' into the shell and things get back in sync.

I also have the following in my .emacs:

(global-set-key "\M-\r" 'shell-resync-dirs)

Then just hitting Esc-return resyncs the auto-completion.