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[feature request] completion of paths with Windows drive letters


Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: cygwin
Compiler: i686-pc-cygwin-gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='cygwin' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-cygwin' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../bash-2.05a -I../bash-2.05a/include -I../bash-2.05a/lib -g -O2
uname output: CYGWIN_NT-4.0 CHRIS 1.3.10(0.51/3/2) 2002-02-25 11:14 i686 unknown
Machine Type: i686-pc-cygwin

Bash Version: 2.05a
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release

Description:
	Under cygwin, it would be convenient to allow filename completion
	on files including any leading drive letter.  Chet Ramey pointed
	out that bash tells readlist to word-break on colons, to enable
	(for example) direct editing of components of $PATH.  I suspect
	that Cygwin users would benefit from being able to disable this
	feature, and getting filename completion with drive letters.
	Note that globbing does work with drive letters (of course), so
	there's a consistency argument that filename completion should too.

Repeat-By:
	"ls c:/win<TAB>" should expand to your Windows directory on cygwin.

Fix:
	One workaround (pointed out by Chet) is to backslash-escape
	the colon.  This is good to know but a bit awkward in practice.

	Another workaround, at least for C:, is to install cygwin 
	directly to C:/, instead of C:/cygwin, which will effectively
	fix the problem for C: paths, though of course not for paths
	prefixed with other drive letters.  

	One possible take on this issue is as follows.  There are certain 
	characters that bash treats as word breaks to enable additional
	functionality.  ":", as described above, is one.  "@" is another;
	some users may prefer to allow "@" in their paths, and disable
	automatic hostname completion.  A general solution might be to
	allow specifying characters to treat as normal word characters
	rather than word break characters, and allow users to specify
	"", ":", "@", ":@" (etc) as they please.  But a 90% solution
	would certainly be to just add a shopt flag that removes colons
	from the list of word-break characters passed to readlist.




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