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Jovan Grbic wrote:
> 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.

A quick bit of experimentation shows this is related to the bash-completion
package.  If that's installed, you'll see the above behaviour.  If it's not
installed, everything works as expected.

If you don't need it, uninstalling bash-completion appears to be a work-around
for me.

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