Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/17/13:59:32
Chris Metcalf wrote:
>Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
>Machine: i686
>OS: cygwin
>Compiler: i686-pc-cygwin-gcc
>Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../bash-2.05a -I../bash-2.05a/include -I../bash-2.05a/lib -g -O2
>uname output: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 CHRIS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
>Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin
>
>Bash Version: 2.05a
>Patch Level: 0
>Release Status: release
>
>Description:
> Under cygwin, it would be convenient to allow filename completion
> on files including any leading drive letter. Chet Ramey pointed
> out that bash tells readlist to word-break on colons, to enable
> (for example) direct editing of components of $PATH. I suspect
> that Cygwin users would benefit from being able to disable this
> feature, and getting filename completion with drive letters.
> Note that globbing does work with drive letters (of course), so
> there's a consistency argument that filename completion should too.
>
>Repeat-By:
> "ls c:/win<TAB>" should expand to your Windows directory on cygwin.
>
>Fix:
> One workaround (pointed out by Chet) is to backslash-escape
> the colon. This is good to know but a bit awkward in practice.
>
> Another workaround, at least for C:, is to install cygwin
> directly to C:/, instead of C:/cygwin, which will effectively
> fix the problem for C: paths, though of course not for paths
> prefixed with other drive letters.
>
> One possible take on this issue is as follows. There are certain
> characters that bash treats as word breaks to enable additional
> functionality. ":", as described above, is one. "@" is another;
> some users may prefer to allow "@" in their paths, and disable
> automatic hostname completion. A general solution might be to
> allow specifying characters to treat as normal word characters
> rather than word break characters, and allow users to specify
> "", ":", "@", ":@" (etc) as they please. But a 90% solution
> would certainly be to just add a shopt flag that removes colons
> from the list of word-break characters passed to readlist.
>
You could always use something like ls /cygdrive/c/win<tab> or do like I
do and change cygdrive prefix to dev with a mount command. Then it would
be /dev/c/win<tab>.
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