Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/01/17/12:05:47
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote:
>
>> I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name
>> like "cyg", and the command completion character and getting a long list
>> of DLL's with a few EXE's thrown in.
>>
>> I had been told it could be fixed through adjustment of the bash command
>> completion or in the readline completion used by bash. This doesn't
>> appear to be a straight forward solution.
>
>Have you looked into it? It's easy in bash:
> FIGNORE
> A colon-separated list of suffixes to ignore when performing
> filename completion (see READLINE below). A filename whose
> suffix matches one of the entries in FIGNORE is excluded from
> the list of matched filenames. A sample value is ".o:~".
Great point. Thanks, Pierre.
Should this be a default in a .profile (or equivalent) somewhere?
cgf
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