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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:06:46 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet AT nike DOT ins DOT cwru DOT edu>
To: rrschulz AT cris DOT com
Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for   completion?
Cc: rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Reply-To: chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu
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X-In-Reply-To:  Message from rrschulz AT cris DOT com of Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:52:45 -0700 (id <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020416104825 DOT 00ae4ff0 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com>)

> Well, it gets weirder.
> 
> I activated the "show-all-if-ambiguous" and now when I type, say:
> 
>          % echo c:/<TAB>
> 
> What I get is a list of the _Cygwin root_!
> 
> The same thing results if I use:
> 
>          % echo d:/<TAB>

Quote the colon.  Readline has a set of characters it uses as word
delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that
set to its tastes.  Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which
makes it convenient to complete colon-separated lists like $PATH. 
Since the colon breaks words, the only thing that gets passed to the
filename completer is `/' and whatever follows it.  Quoting the colon
(the simplest thing to use is a backslash) causes readline to not
consider it a word break character.

Chet

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)

Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet AT po DOT CWRU DOT Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/

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