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Re: readline completion


On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:

> > pathname completion in bash (implemented using readline) does not work
> > with woe32 pathnames:
> > this does not work:
> > $ ls c:/ <TAB>
> > this works:
> > $ ls /cygdrive/c/ <TAB>
> >
> > is it possible to fix this?
>
> Possible? Yes.  Likely to happen?  Depends on whether I ever get
> time to look at it, or if someone beats me to it by providing a patch.
> Also, which version of bash and readline are you using?  bash-3.0-11
> introduced the notion of c: being an absolute path to the bash
> internals; maybe I need to find where readline also needs to be
> taught that fact.  Also, readline 5.1 and bash 3.1 are in alpha, so
> the fix might not appear until those go mainstream.
>
> One other thing to consider - by default, filename completion breaks
> words at the : character (useful for completing assignments to PATH,
> among others).  So do yourself a favor, and get used to a /cygdrive
> style pathname, rather than the c: prefix.  And if it is too many
> characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix to /.  '/c' is just as many
> characters as 'c:', but more unix-y:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00017.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00019.html

Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless
Tab-completion of /cygdrive:

cd / && \
mkdir /cygdrive && \
cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \
cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico

Enjoy,
	Igor
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