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RE: Autocompletion of shell variables
- From: Adam Dinwoodie <Adam dot Dinwoodie at metaswitch dot com>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:34:55 +0000
- Subject: RE: Autocompletion of shell variables
- Deferred-delivery: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:34:00 +0000
- References: <50619E14.3060703@heliant.rs>
Jovan Grbic wrote:
> I have an irk with Cygwin 1.7.16. The problem is that the autocompletion of
> shell variables is not functioning if I don't use full windows executable
> name of standard linux tool.
>
> For example. I have variable SERVER=a.b.c.d. When i try
> ssh $SER<tab>
> autocomplete does not work, but with
> ssh.exe $SER<tab>
> autocomplete works. Autocompletion of file system paths works in both cases.
A quick bit of experimentation shows this is related to the bash-completion
package. If that's installed, you'll see the above behaviour. If it's not
installed, everything works as expected.
If you don't need it, uninstalling bash-completion appears to be a work-around
for me.
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