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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:04:51 -0400
To: Chris Metcalf <metcalf AT incert DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for
  completion?
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At 01:54 PM 4/16/2002, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>Larry Hall replied:
> > I don't see this behavior.  It works fine for me (tm).
>
>Perhaps you installed cygwin to c:/ instead of c:/cygwin?  That would
>explain why it looks the same.  If you have some other drive mounted
>(e.g. d:), I'd be curious to see whether file completion out of a path
>under d: works for you too.  (Same goes for Rick Rankin; and I also
>have show-all-if-ambiguous set in my .inputrc, so that's not it.)
>
>In general, if one expands c:/foo in a Unix bash, it will also ignore the
>c: and expand /foo, so my request really is for a Windows-specific bash
>parsing feature; it's not something I'd expect to Just Work.


OK, you got it Chris.  I see the correct behavior because I do have Cygwin
installed in / rather than /cygwin (my drive is actually d:).  So, it looks
like bash doesn't do proper file name completion with DOS paths.  While I 
don't really care about this, it is a "nice" feature to have.  I guess that
anyone who's interested in pursuing this feature can follow-up on this.  In
any case, the request you've made is in the archives so it won't get lost.

Glad you figured this out and clarified this special case.

Thanks,




Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
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