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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>, Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>,
   cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: readline completion
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:19:55 +0000
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> 
> Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless
> Tab-completion of /cygdrive:
> 
> cd / && \
> mkdir /cygdrive && \
> cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \
> cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico

Only if you don't have case-insensitive tab-completion turned on.
Me, I like 'shopt -s nocaseglob' in ~/.bashrc, and
'set completion-ignore-case on' in ~/.inputrc, which then means
/cygdrive and /Cygwin.bat still have a common '[cC][yY][gG]' prefix,
so your trick doesn't help.

--
Eric Blake



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