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Re: file completion in bash shell from emacs

This does not happen with the Cygwin build of Xemacs.  You might want
to look into it.  There is no binary available yet.

david

Murli Ganeshan writes:
 > I have emacs 19.34.6 for windows 95 and I have installed the cygwin 20.1
 > package and am able to invoke a bash shell from emacs with "M-x shell".
 > 
 > I have seen a problem with file completion. The problem is that the forward
 > slash(/)directory delimiter is replaced by the backward slash(\). So if had a
 > hierarchy as
 > dir1
 > 	dir2
 > 
 > And from dir1, I say ls <TAB>, I get ls dir2\, instead of ls dir2/, and I have
 > to manually change the \ to / to descend.
 > 
 > I have not seen this problem when the bash shell is invoked by itself(i.e 
 > cygnus.bat), and it correctlygives the / delimiter.
 > 
 > I would like to know how how to have the same behaviour inside a bash shell 
 > opened from emacs.
 > 
 > Any comments/suggestions are highly appreciated.
 > -murli
 > 
 > -------------------------------------------
 > Murli Ganeshan 	Cirrus Logic, Austin, TX
 > mailto:murlig@crystal.cirrus.com	
 > phone:  (512)912-3365	fax: (512)912-3230
 > -------------------------------------------
 > 
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