Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:23:29 -0400 From: Chet Ramey To: rrschulz@cris.com Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion? Cc: rick_rankin@yahoo.com, cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Message-ID: <020416182329.AA13841.SM@nike.ins.cwru.edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-In-Reply-To: Message from rrschulz@cris.com of Tue, 16 Apr 2002 11:20:03 -0700 (id <5.1.0.14.2.20020416111644.02fcd3e8@pop3.cris.com>) > This reminds me of another oddity, one I resolved serendipitously: I never > understood why Readline was escaping at signs ('@') when they were part of > a name it was expanding (I sometimes use them to set off time stamps > incorporated into file names). Then one day I happened upon the > documentation of the Cygwin feature designed to circumvent argument list > length limitations: @argListFileName. Bash does hostname completion, too. The `@' is another completer word break character on all systems, not just cygwin. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- 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/