Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/16/13:12:46
Chris,
I have a symbolic link in my Cygwin root for each drive on my system (e.g.,
/c -> /cygdrive/c). Completion in BASH recognizes these symlinks and
follows them (without expanding it to the target).
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 09:45 2002-04-16, 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). This is
>quite understandable and defensible, but it would be nice to allow drive
>letters to be considered part of the path name if the user so chooses. In
>defense of this option, I submit:
>
> * If I enter "ls -d c:/win*", the shell *does* include the drive
> letter prefix as part of the path, and globs corrects (to c:/winnt).
>
> * tcsh (6.11.00-4) by default does filename completion including
> drive letter prefixes.
>
>Thanks for your consideration.
>
> Chris Metcalf
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