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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:59:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?
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On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> 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?

Unfortunately, this isn't necessarily good to have as a default setting,
since putting .dll in $FIGNORE will disable completion in all cases, not
just when searching for an executable.  In other words, if you have a file
foo.dll, and try to get gcc to link with it while having .dll in $FIGNORE,
typing in "gcc blah.c foo<TAB>" will not produce a match with foo.dll
(same with "cp", etc).  If there were a way to restrict .dll completion
*only* for cases when an executable is needed, that would be a good
candidate for a default setting.
	Igor
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