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Hi,

As you know Bash readline implementation allows `smart' program specific
completion for things like program options or allowed arguments. Since
Emacs shell mode uses non-interactive Bash shell the readline
functionality is suppressed, and replaced with more less equivalent
comint interface. That is, more or less... I wish to have all this
features in Shell comint interface.

So the question is: anybody knows any project that includes this
functionality?

I am tempted to start a project like this, maybe generate completion
stuff from shell scripts and maybe C files (and convert this to Emacs
Lisp).

What do you think about it?

cheers;
Wojciech Dan

Take a look at eshell (M-x eshell RET). It has some smart completion.
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Vagn Johansen