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Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Chris Metcalf <metcalf at incert dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:56:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?
At 12:45 PM 4/16/2002, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>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).
I don't see this behavior. It works fine for me (tm). Perhaps you're
getting caught by bash's default case-sensitivity of filename completion?
I can't even begin to imagine why you get the root directory as a result
though. I'm guessing this must be a local environment issue.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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