Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011002111436.00a70b88@pop.atg.com> X-Sender: matt@pop.atg.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:20:17 -0400 To: David Starks-Browning From: Matt Landau Subject: Re: bash 2.04 can't complete ~/name if $HOME set to c:/users/foo? Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <8313-Tue02Oct2001155749+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011002102745.00a6df08@pop.atg.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011001192343.00a74568@pop.atg.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20011002102745.00a6df08@pop.atg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:57 AM 10/2/2001, David Starks-Browning wrote: >OK. But in fact, doesn't Emacs care about $HOME so it can find .emacs >or _emacs? Nope. It manages to find ~/.emacs even if $HOME has been whacked by bash. Not sure how it does so, but it does. >Probably because bash is a unix program, not a Windows program? >Without looking at the bash source code (bad thing to say on this >list, I know), your complaint sounds like a feature request, not a bug >report. Perhaps, although I'm fairly sure that previous versions of bash *did* know how to complete win32-style pathnames. But maybe I'm misremembering. >It's not *always* possible to make $HOME a win32 path. I would expect >ssh and rsh, for example, to interpret the colon as host:path. I'm probably going to bail on that approach in any case and use shell functions, because not having completion is just too annoying. >For Emacs, have you looked into cygwin-mount.el? Here is one >reference: . I guess that's another approach to the emacs issue, though it still doesn't help with other apps. Thanks for the reference, though. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/