From: snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com (Mark E.)
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Bash 2.03 beta update
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 17:10:32 GMT
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:22:23 +0300 (IDT), you wrote:

>I found today that file-name completion doesn't grok drive letters.  To 
>reproduce, type something like "ls c:/" and then press TAB (several 
>times).  What you will see will probably surprise you.

Turns out to be a Bash/Readline problem. Bash sets a variable for
completion word break characters which just happens to include ':'. So the
filename completion function just sees '/' which could indeed give you a
unwanted suprise.

Mark
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