Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?

[Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot ins dot cwru dot edu>]

> Well, it gets weirder.
> 
> I activated the "show-all-if-ambiguous" and now when I type, say:
> 
>          % echo c:/<TAB>
> 
> What I get is a list of the _Cygwin root_!
> 
> The same thing results if I use:
> 
>          % echo d:/<TAB>

Quote the colon.  Readline has a set of characters it uses as word
delimiters for completion, and the calling application can modify that
set to its tastes.  Bash includes `:' as a word break character, which
makes it convenient to complete colon-separated lists like $PATH. 
Since the colon breaks words, the only thing that gets passed to the
filename completer is `/' and whatever follows it.  Quoting the colon
(the simplest thing to use is a backslash) causes readline to not
consider it a word break character.

Chet

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