Please help with 4NT and cygwin problem?? (WinXP)

[CyberZombie]

Daniel Miller wrote:

>CyberZombie <Cyber.Zombie@comcast.net> wrote in
>news:411013CF.8080505@comcast.net: 
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>>>No, I find 4NT to be more flexible than BASH... filename completion is
>>>handier, especially when multiple filenames match what you type;
>>>editing of environment variables (especially PATH) with eset is
>>>unmatched by Bash, and there are some other handy things in 4NT as
>>>well, which are lacked by Bash.  I do alot of work with Bash on my
>>>job, under Linux, and I often rue the absence of 4NT there...
>>>
>>>... of course, that's when it works...
>>>
>>>        Dan
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>>>      
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>>For filename completion, the following might help
>>.inputrc:
>>set completion-ignore-case on
>>set bell-style none
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>This is cool, thanks!!  There are some other things that I thought Bash 
>didn't do, but your recent message got me looking for Bash tutorials again, 
>and I've found how to do some of those things.  For example, 4NT lets you 
>type part of a previously-typed command, then use up-arrow to walk thru all 
>previous command which started with what you typed.  I thought Bash didn't 
>have such a thing (other than !, which only selects one command), but now 
>I've discovered Control-R, which does just that!!  Cool stuff!!
>
>Now, if ls would just stop marking all files as executable when I use /F, 
>I'd be very happy!!
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>... and I may need to switch to Bash if I can't get these 4NT quirks 
>solved...
>
>    	Dan
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I've mapped up, down (and others) in .inputrc ... attaching
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