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On 11/02/2010 02:49 PM, dan DOT colascione AT gmail DOT com wrote:
> Index: bash-3.2/doc/bash.1
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> --- bash-3.2.orig/doc/bash.1
> +++ bash-3.2/doc/bash.1
> @@ -7991,6 +7991,11 @@ If set,
>  changes its behavior to that of version 3.1 with respect to quoted
>  arguments to the conditional command's =3D~ operator.
>  .TP 8
> +.B completion_strip_exe
> +If set, whenever Bash sees a `foo.exe' while trying to complete a
> +command, it checks whether a file called `foo' is a hardlink to the
> +former and, if so, uses the short name.
> +.TP 8

Awesome! A patch, including documentation, for something that I find useful!

I can't help but wonder how much programmable completion could be taught
to strip .exe by itself, but if you don't use bash-completion, this
still makes sense (and even if you do, it is such a fundamental
operation and certainly seems more efficient to build in below the
compgen layer than making all compgen clients have to do it themselves).
 I guess I really need to find time and start testing this, to push out
a new cygwin bash build.

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