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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: bash-4.3.46-6


Greetings, Eric Blake!

> On 08/06/2016 04:25 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> On 8/6/2016 6:13 AM, Eric Blake (cygwin) wrote:
>>> 7b. completion_strip_exe - using 'shopt -s completion_strip_exe'
>>> makes completion strip .exe suffixes
>> 
>> I get an error that completion_strip_exe is not a supported option with
>> this release. It was working fine in 4.3.42-4.

> Well, for a limited set of cases.  :)

> $ /bin/ln<TAB>

> changes output from 'ln.exe   lndir.exe' to 'ln   lndir', but

> $ ls /bin/ln<TAB>

> still shows .exe.  Patches would be welcome for anyone that can figure
> out how to make bash-completion also strip .exe from file name
> completions when the name being completed is not the first word on the
> command line.

It should? I don't think so.
What if I need to specify a file name to edit?


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Thursday, August 25, 2016 00:23:45

Sorry for my terrible english...


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