Re: found problem in cygwin 1.3.14-1...

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Jason,

In the command position command completion only includes files with execute 
permission.

Since Cygwin 1.3.13, "ntsec" is on by default, when in the past it was off 
by default. No doubt your files don't have explicit execute permissions.

You'll need to add explicit execute permissions to ".exe" files and scripts 
to get them to be expanded by filename completion in the way you want.

I make a very quick scan of the READLINE section of the BASH manual and 
didn't see a way around this, but the sub-section "Programmable Completion" 
might hold an option / answer I didn't notice.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:26 2002-10-28, you wrote:
> No more tab in bash shell available.
>
> I can't use tab to search programs like shutdown.exe by simply type the 'tab"
> key after typing "shu" as before:
>
> ============================================
>
> $ ls /bin/sh{TAB]
> sh.exe        shar.exe      shred.exe
> sha1sum.exe   showfigfonts  shutdown.exe
>
> tsfu@KIRIN ~/Shared Documents/pub
> $ shu[TAB]
>
> ==================================
>
> No response at all.
>
> I could do so with 1.3.12 or before. In short, the "tab" function of bash no
> longer works properly as before.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jason Fu

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