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: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:05:33 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable? Message-ID: <20050117170533.GH20403@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <41E9D722.3010306@tlinx.org> <009001c4fba2$54223c20$e6ec6f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> <41EAF139.6070102@tlinx.org> <20050117014343.GA907371@Worldnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050117014343.GA907371@Worldnet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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 -- 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/