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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: readline completion
Date:  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:18:20 -0700
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Yes, that turns a '/c[Tab]' sequence into a '/c[Tab]d[Tab]' (two more
> keystrokes). :-)
> Igor

That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-)
-- 
On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.


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