Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/09/28/13:00:12
Jeff Perry wrote:
> I am very confused about how cygwin maps its root to the c:/cygwin
> directory. I'm also not sure what /cygdrive is.
>
> When I type gvim /etc/passwd from bash, gvim comes up with an empty file
> called passwd in c:/etc (which doesn't exist). If I try to write this file,
> gvim fails, which, of course, it should. (The gvim I'm using is the one
> compiled for NT).
>
> Can someone tell me why this happens?
The Cygwin POSIX paths come from the cygwin1.dll. So if your program hasn't been
compiled for Cygwin, it won't understand Cygwin paths.
> Also, when I try to tab-expand /cygdrive/c/..., bash can never expand the
> files. For example, if I type
> $ cd /cygdrive/c/winn<tab>, bash cannot complete the 't' and instead beeps.
> But if I complete it for bash by adding the t and the pressing <return>,
> bash will cd me to the c:/winnt directory.
>
> Can someone tell me why this is true?
Sounds like case clashes. See the readline info pages and add "set
completion-ignore-case On" to your global inputrc file or ~/.inputrc.
Max.
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