Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/05/04/04:44:09
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:14:31AM +0100, Sagar R. Shah wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I am also suffering from the problem of not being able to use bash to
> autocomplete script names of scripts that are in my path.
>
> But before this becomes a 'me too' post, i've also noticed something else.
> When i do:
>
> S<tab><tab>
>
> I get:
>
> SAMPLES SETVER.EXE SORT.EXE SVUNINST.EXE SendTo
> SCANDISK.EXE SIGVERIF.EXE SRS SYS.COM ShellNew
> SCANDSKW.EXE SMARTDRV.EXE ST5UNST.EXE SYSBCKUP Start Menu
> SCANREG.EXE SNDREC32.EXE START.EXE SYSMON.EXE
> SCANREGW.EXE SNDVOL32.EXE SUBST.EXE SYSTEM
> SETDEBUG.EXE SOL.EXE SULFNBK.EXE SYSTEM32
>
> Now as well as including EXEs which should be there, there are also
> subdirectories of folders that are in my path.
>
> The above command was executed from $HOME. But, for example, SendTo and
> Start Menu are both subdirectories of /c/WINDOWS. And SRS is a subdirectory
> of my /c/WORK/RELEASE/LIB
>
> Should bash be doing this? I tried the same on a linux box (which was
> running an older verison of bash) and it doesn't.
>
> I can't see any benifit of autocompleting directory names before a command
> has first been entered. (ie. i agree that cd S<tab><tab> should list
> sub-directories of the current directory).
Ok, I just checked that with 2.05-4 and 2.05-1, which is the version
using exactly the sources retrieved from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash.
That behaviour is bash-2.05 behaviour and I've built it on Linux as
well to check that. It behaves the same way. So I would like to ask
you to move that discussion to the bash mailing list bug-bash AT gnu DOT org.
Corinna
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