This is the mail archive of the cygwin mailing list for the Cygwin project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [1.7] Undocumented change in accessing by dos drive letters?


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

According to aputerguy on 11/5/2009 2:34 PM:
>>From the cygwin shell, I can do tab-completion on drive letters to get
> things like C:/usr/bin/ls
> However, when I press return, I get:
>       bash: C:/usr/bin/ls: No such file or directory
> Which is understandable since the file is in C:\cygwin\usr\bin\ls
> So, why is bash tab completion messing up here? (note the same behavior was
> true in cygwin 1.5 too so this is not a "new" bug.

This is not a bug, but a feature of bash tab-completion.  'man bash', and
search for COMP_WORDBREAKS.  Note that : is a special character, in that
it marks a boundary of a word (so you are completing "/usr/bin/ls", not
"c:/usr/bin/ls").  In other words, completion sees a different file name
than ls.  All the more reason to use posix-y paths and avoid drive letters.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAkrzlJYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAtGQCeMy454mlxAKx6k/VKj3AkFZek
9CAAnRWyZ+xoZgutSGJ9mIV3KtK7tLB8
=Bgv3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]