Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:51:37 +0100 (BST) From: andrew brian clegg X-X-Sender: fcleg01@sark.cryst.bbk.ac.uk To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: auto tab complete In-Reply-To: <3F4640A9.3080503@keyww.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact CCSG (http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/CCSG/) more information X-MailScanner-cryst-bbk: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-31, required 9, BAYES_01, EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS, IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_PINE) Tab completion is a facility of the shell running on the remote computer surely, nothing to do with ssh itself. e.g. I ssh into my home PC from work and I get tab completion, because my shell at home is bash with completion set up. This would also be the case if I were to use telnet or rlogin to connet. If it was sh or cmd.exe I wouldn't, regardless of whether I used ssh or telnet or rlogin, because sh and cmd.exe don't support it. Or am I misunderstanding the question? Andrew. On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, jwaterbrook wrote: > does the ssh executable support it? It won't even work for it. > > Vince Hoffman wrote: > > To the best of my knowledge the sftp executable doesnt support tab > > completion. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/