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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:33:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: Autocompletion of shell variables
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jovan Grbic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of
> shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable
> name of standard linux tool.
>
> For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i try
>     ssh $SER<tab>
> autocomplete does not work, but with
>     ssh.exe $SER<tab>
> autocomplete works. Autocompletion of file system paths works in both cases.
>
> I'm certain that it functioned like expected in some of my former cygwin
> installations. I'm using latest version now.

WJFFM.  Maybe your ~/.inputrc is the reason?

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