X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DA8D6D6.9090601@ece.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:37:58 -0400 From: Ryan Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Blake CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Re: Spurious warnings about MS-DOS paths References: <4DA70298.3040601@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4DA70298.3040601@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On 2:59 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 04/13/2011 09:10 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> A recent cygwin update has started spewing warnings such as the >> following when I do tab completion on a path containing spaces: >>> $ cd ~/Home/Documents/Pcygwin warning: >>> MS-DOS style path detected: ~/Home/Documents/PC\ reviews\ 2011 >>> Preferred POSIX equivalent is: ~/Home/Documents/PC/ reviews/ 2011 >>> CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this >>> warning. >>> Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: >>> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames >> Would it be possible to make the check exclude common character escapes? > No, but it probably is an upstream bug the bash-completion package worth > reporting and fixing. Can you use 'set -vx' just before typing the > command that triggers the message, so I can see which command in the > completion function is insufficiently quoting the pathname such that a > glob completion is being inappropriately attempted on escape characters? I don't have bash-completion(s) installed. If set -vx would be useful with vanilla bash, I'm happy to try it, though. Regards, Ryan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple