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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:00:19 -0700
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: cygwin and long filenames with spaces
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Hi,

My experiments suggest both these contentions are correct, depending on how 
one interprets them.

If I type this:
         ls -l /cygdr<TAB>

or this:
         ls -l /cygdr<ALT-*>

(same as this:)
         ls -l /cygdr<ALT-SHIFT-8>

There are no completions. The same goes for "/pro" in place of "/cygdr".

However, doing this:

         ls -l /cygdrive/<ALT-*>

I get a listing of all my drives (modulo the bug the causes my C: drive to 
be omitted from /cygdrive). Likewise, this works for "/proc".


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 09:48 2002-08-12, news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com wrote:
>On 09 Aug 2002, "John Morrison" <john DOT r DOT morrison AT ntlworld DOT com>
>wrote:
>
> >> From: news AT garydjones DOT mailshell DOT com
>
> >> $ cd /cygdr<tab>
> >> --
> >> doesn't do what one might expect (i.e. it does not seem to
> >> try  to complete the line).
> >
> > Tab completion only works with real directories.
> > /cygdrive, /proc are virtual.
>
>Fairy snuff.


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