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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: automatic completion
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:28:52 +0200
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John Morrison wrote on  :

>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using the latest version of Cygwin in Windows XP. If I open a new
>> Cygwin Bash shell, and then just press the "&" key and then the TAB
>> key, the Cygwin Bash shell window freezes.
>>
>> Has anybody else experienced this ?
>
> Works well here - just took a moment or two to find the 4767 possible
> tasks I might want to do :)
>
> J.

Works here to... though taking some time to complete (A minute or so the
first time) - this depends on your hardware (mine is slow).

Hmm... wasn't there a readline/bash option to set, to cancel "empty line"
tab completion attempts?
<rumbing through 'man bash'> Heh? Where is it?

Ahh... :-)

	shopt -s no_empty_cmd_completion

<trying out...>

Well, this seems have no positive effect; the completion attemp is still
done. OTOH if you type a space and THEN hit TAB - the above helps.


/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems            --72-->

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