Chris, I have a symbolic link in my Cygwin root for each drive on my system (e.g., /c -> /cygdrive/c). Completion in BASH recognizes these symlinks and follows them (without expanding it to the target).
Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 09:45 2002-04-16, Chris Metcalf wrote: >Currently, if you use completion on a path with a drive letter (e.g. "ls >-d c:/win<TAB>"), bash considers the drive letter to be unrelated syntax >and expands out of the mounted root instead (e.g. c:/cygwin). This is >quite understandable and defensible, but it would be nice to allow drive >letters to be considered part of the path name if the user so chooses. In >defense of this option, I submit: > > * If I enter "ls -d c:/win*", the shell *does* include the drive > letter prefix as part of the path, and globs corrects (to c:/winnt). > > * tcsh (6.11.00-4) by default does filename completion including > drive letter prefixes. > >Thanks for your consideration. > > Chris Metcalf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
