Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

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

Rick,

Well, it gets weirder.

I activated the "show-all-if-ambiguous" and now when I type, say:

         % echo c:/<TAB>

What I get is a list of the _Cygwin root_!

The same thing results if I use:

         % echo d:/<TAB>


Here's my mount table:

% mount
D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
\\.\A: on /dev/fd0 type user (binmode)
c: on /cygdrive/c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /cygdrive/d type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /cygdrive/e type user (binmode,noumount)
g: on /cygdrive/g type user (binmode,noumount)
h: on /cygdrive/h type user (binmode,noumount)


Here are the symlins in my Cygwin root:

% ll / |egrep -e '->'
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 29 09:11 a -> /cygdrive/a
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 08:50 c -> /cygdrive/c/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 08:50 d -> /cygdrive/d/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 08:50 e -> /cygdrive/e/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 08:50 f -> /cygdrive/f
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 08:50 g -> /cygdrive/g/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           94 Nov 21 12:57 h -> /cygdrive/h/


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 10:44 2002-04-16, Rick Rankin wrote:
>Hmm... I've set no special options regarding case sensitivity, but 
>completion with both upper and lower case drive letters works fine, i.e., both
>
>ls c:/<tab>
>
>and
>
>ls C:/<tab>
>
>show me the contents of the root directory on drive C. I *do* have the 
>directive
>
>set show-all-if-ambiguous on
>
>in my .inputrc. Don't know if that has any effect.
>
>--Rick
>
>
>--- Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com> wrote:
> > Larry,
> >
> > I deliberately use case sensitivity for completion, but even knowing that,
> > completion on absolute names in Windows native format does not work for 
> me.
> > I tried with the drive letter both in lower and upper case, but no go.
> >
> > Perhaps there's another option of which I'm unaware?
> >
> >
> > By the way, for Chris' benefit, in case he doesn't already know, the
> > "~/.inputrc" directive for getting case insensitivity from completion is:
> >
> > set completion-ignore-case on
> >
> >
> > Randall Schulz
> > Mountain View, CA USA
> >
> >
> > At 09:56 2002-04-16, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > >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


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