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RE: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?


Whats wrong with 

mount c: /c
etc.

and 

$ ls -d /c/win*
/c/win2000  /c/wincvs  /c/winzip.log

Justin 


> Chris Metcalf
> Currently, if you use completion on a path with a drive letter (e.g.
> "ls -d c:/win<TAB>"), bash considers the drive letter to be unrelated
> syntax and expands out of the mounted root instead (e.g. c:/cygwin).
> This is quite understandable and defensible, but it would be nice to
> allow drive letters to be considered part of the path name if the
> user so chooses.  In defense of this option, I submit:


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