Emacs - Better completion mechanism for comint mode?

Question

When I open a shell in Emacs and try to Tab-complete paths, this stupid window pops up:

Click <mouse-2> on a completion to select it.
In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.

Possible completions are:
../     ./  .DS_Store   .git/     bar/     foo/

Is there a way I could use a minibuffer completion instead of this awful window, such as Ido or Icicles, or maybe even auto-complete.el?

Answer 1

Doesn't solve what you wanted, but you should use ansi-term, it's a much better shell emulator than the normal shell command. It has two modes where one acts like a regular emacs buffer (C-p goes up and C-n goes down) and the other mode acts like a normal shell (C-p for previous command and C-n for next command). And in both modes tab just completes like a normal shell.