> 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet) Chet Ramey, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ -- 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/