Jeff Perry wrote: > I am very confused about how cygwin maps its root to the c:/cygwin > directory. I'm also not sure what /cygdrive is. > > When I type gvim /etc/passwd from bash, gvim comes up with an empty file > called passwd in c:/etc (which doesn't exist). If I try to write this file, > gvim fails, which, of course, it should. (The gvim I'm using is the one > compiled for NT). > > Can someone tell me why this happens?
The Cygwin POSIX paths come from the cygwin1.dll. So if your program hasn't been compiled for Cygwin, it won't understand Cygwin paths. > Also, when I try to tab-expand /cygdrive/c/..., bash can never expand the > files. For example, if I type > $ cd /cygdrive/c/winn<tab>, bash cannot complete the 't' and instead beeps. > But if I complete it for bash by adding the t and the pressing <return>, > bash will cd me to the c:/winnt directory. > > Can someone tell me why this is true? Sounds like case clashes. See the readline info pages and add "set completion-ignore-case On" to your global inputrc file or ~/.inputrc. Max. -- 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/
