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Date:	Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:03:53 +0100
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From:	David Starks-Browning <starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>
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To:	Chris Metcalf <metcalf AT incert DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for
	completion?
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On Tuesday 16 Apr 02, Chris Metcalf writes:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > Readline has a set of characters it uses as word
> > delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that
> > set to its tastes.  Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which
> > makes it convenient to complete colon-separated lists like $PATH. 
> > Since the colon breaks words, the only thing that gets passed to the
> > filename completer is `/' and whatever follows it.  Quoting the colon
> > (the simplest thing to use is a backslash) causes readline to not
> > consider it a word break character.
> 
> In that case, it sounds like the right question to be asking is whether
> there is a user-visible knob that we can tweak to modify the set of
> characters which bash passes to readline as word break characters.
> Both ":" and "@" seem like reasonable candidates to allow removing
> from the word-break list, with the obvious caveats about functionality
> that would no longer be supported within the shell: $PATH-type list
> modification and automatic hostname completion, respectively.

Fair enough, but that would be an issue for bash, not Cygwin.

Since it's probably only a source of confusion for Cygwin users, I'll
add something to the Cygwin FAQ about this.

Thanks Chet, for helping us out with the answer!

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)


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