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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:23:29 -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 11:20:03 -0700 (id <5 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 14 DOT 2 DOT 20020416111644 DOT 02fcd3e8 AT pop3 DOT cris DOT com>)

> This reminds me of another oddity, one I resolved serendipitously: I never 
> understood why Readline was escaping at signs ('@') when they were part of 
> a name it was expanding (I sometimes use them to set off time stamps 
> incorporated into file names). Then one day I happened upon the 
> documentation of the Cygwin feature designed to circumvent argument list 
> length limitations: @argListFileName.

Bash does hostname completion, too.  The `@' is another completer word break
character on all systems, not just cygwin.

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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