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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: rxvt/bash tab problem
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 02:16:16 +0000 (UTC)
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luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au wrote:
> If at a fresh bash prompt in an rxvt window (non-X) you type a TAB,
> nothing happens, and no input from the keyboard appears thereafter,
> until you use CTRL-C to interrupt whatever has blocked.

Putting 
shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion
in your .bash_profile is a good way to avoid this.

I don't know what's up with your other comment about weird interaction 
between multiple presses of TAB and CTRL-C, but I would tend to guess 
it's not a Cygwin issue.

Robert


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