Subject: Re: Zsh filename completion sluggishness?
From: Christopher Faylor <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:09:59 -0500

On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:12:54AM -0700, Matt Armstrong wrote:
>In the Win32 world, quotes around path elements are valid.  If I have:
>
>    PATH="c:\foo bar"
>
>cmd.exe will find executables in that dir.
>
>When I run bash or zsh, things in "c:\foo bar" aren't found.

This is a UNIX emulation environment.  "c:\foo bar" doesn't mean the c drive
in a PATH variable.  It means the 'c' directory followed by the '\foo bar'
directory.  Colon is the separator for PATH.

The correct syntax for the above is PATH="/cygdrive/c/foo bar" .

cgf

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