Re: readline completion

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> > > Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless
> > > Tab-completion of /cygdrive:
> > >
> > > cd / && \
> > > mkdir /cygdrive && \
> > > cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \
> > > cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico
> >
> > Only if you don't have case-insensitive tab-completion turned on.
> > Me, I like 'shopt -s nocaseglob' in ~/.bashrc, and
> > 'set completion-ignore-case on' in ~/.inputrc, which then means
> > /cygdrive and /Cygwin.bat still have a common '[cC][yY][gG]' prefix,
> > so your trick doesn't help.
>
>
> Yes, that turns a '/c[Tab]' sequence into a '/c[Tab]d[Tab]' (two more
> keystrokes). :-)
> Igor

That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-)
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