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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:27:56 -0400
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Question about tab completion
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At 06:05 AM 6/13/2005, you wrote:
>Mikael wrote:
>
>> But say I type /c<tab>, instead of stopping at c as I thought would happen,
>> /cyg is completed and these three are displayed:
>> cygdrive    cygwin.bat  cygwin.ico
>> 
>> Why? Why doesn't it stop at c? Have I done something wrong with my mounts or
>> is this as it should be?
>
>Tab completion doesn't know about mounts, only directories and files. 
>Since there is not actually a directory in the root named 'c'
>(underneath the mount), tab completion doesn't consider it.  In other
>words, if you do "ls /" you won't see /c, which is essentially all that
>tab completion does.
>
>You can get the desired behavior though by actually creating a directory
>there.  But you can't do this while /c is mounted, so you'll have to
>temporarily set the cygdrive to something else.
>
>$ mount -c /cygdrive
>$ mkdir /c
>$ mount -c /


And it's standard UNIX practice to create the mount point directory first.  
Or, more correctly, you *have* to create the directory first.  Cygwin doesn't
require you to create the directory before mounting to it but doing so 
doesn't have much in the way of advantages, as you've noticed.



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