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From: "C. J." <dusk47 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: TAB-completion and filesystem problem
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:16:05 -0700
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>>I think this is a lame 'feature' of tcsh.
>>If you start your cmdline with 'cp' or 'mv',
>>it refuses to tab-complete the 2nd argument,
>>maybe to prevent you from accidently overwriting
>>a file by forcing you to type the full name.
>>I wish there was a way to disable this.
>
>There is.  Reading /etc/cshrc.* and especially 'man tcsh' could help.

Arrgh, I hate digging through man pages to fix stuff that was working fine 
for years.  OK, for all those out there having problems with this:
you need to go to /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh and '#' comment out the lines 
for 'complete mv' and 'complete cp'.

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