X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45FF3D3D.8010808@byu.net> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:47:41 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tab Completion and Typical Behavior References: <20070319222033.GC12851@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: <20070319222033.GC12851@suncomp1.spk.agilent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Gary Johnson on 3/19/2007 4:20 PM: > On 2007-03-19, robert_neville310@yahoo.com wrote: >> I have a question about tab completion in the console window. The >> .bash_profile exports the right paths and the console performs tab >> completion. My scripts can be found in ~/bin. I can tab out >> myscript.sh, but can not tab complete ./myscript.sh; or sh >> myscript.sh. Is this behavior normal? Can I change the console >> behavior to tab out ./myscript.sh? > > Larry didn't address the case of > > sh myscript.sh > > which doesn't seem to work by default. That is, if you don't use the bash-completion package. If you install that, and tweak your ~/.bashrc (/etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc has some hints), then you get this, and many other, programmable completion tweaks by default. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/z0884KuGfSFAYARAswuAJ9r3FT4+BN66+VCb8IBI0zqC0ObhgCgw+wK hM881pRb/FB1qGS/B7bdREA= =aDi0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/