Bug#520364: fish: default completions for emacs are not good

[Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>]

Package: fish
Version: 1.23.1-1
Severity: normal

Hope you don't mind my reporting so many bugs in a row; thing is I
like fish, and want it to be a better shell for me and others =).

So, I use emacs for numerous tasks, including some configuration files
editing. I am used to using emacs to edit any kind of file, including
binary files, from time to time. fish's completion for emacs makes me
sad, though:

root@abacate ~# ls /etc/apache2/
apache2.conf  envvars     mods-available/  ports.conf        sites-enabled/
conf.d/       httpd.conf  mods-enabled/    sites-available/
root@abacate ~# emacs /etc/apache2/<tab>conf.d
root@abacate ~# emacs /etc/apache2/conf.d 

I wanted to edit apache2.conf, and now I'll have to delete "conf.d "
and only then type "a<tab>". The same seems to happen to vim, but I
can't remember a specific case right this moment.

Thanks,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fish depends on:
ii  bc                     1.06.94-3         The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii  elinks [www-browser]   0.12~pre2.dfsg0-1 advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  epiphany-gecko [www-br 2.24.3-2          Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck
ii  epiphany-webkit [www-b 2.27.0~svn.8831-1 Intuitive GNOME web browser - WebK
ii  iceweasel [www-browser 3.0.7-1           lightweight web browser based on M
ii  libc6                  2.9-4             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090228-1    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  links [www-browser]    2.2-1+b1          Web browser running in text mode
ii  lynx                   2.8.7dev13-1      Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
ii  lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.7dev13-1      Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  w3m [www-browser]      0.5.2-2+b1        WWW browsable pager with excellent

Versions of packages fish recommends:
ii  xsel                          1.2.0-1    command-line tool to access X clip

Versions of packages fish suggests:
ii  doc-base                      0.9.1      utilities to manage online documen
ii  menu                          2.1.41     generates programs menu for all me

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