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Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?
- From: Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot ins dot cwru dot edu>
- To: rrschulz at cris dot com
- Cc: rick_rankin at yahoo dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:23:29 -0400
- Subject: Re: bash 2.05a-3: option to allow drive letter prefixes for completion?
- Read-receipt-to: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
- Reply-to: chet at po dot CWRU dot Edu
> 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
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