On 11/5/2010 David Rothenberger wrote: > > On 11/5/2010 10:13 AM, Andy Hall wrote: > > I have recently upgraded to 1.7.7 from 1.5.X. In 1.5.X, it used to be > that > > in bash I could type lines like > > > > P4 edit hydra_c > > > > and hit the tab key to complete the file name. A command like > > > > p4 edit hydra_config > > > > would be then executed. > > > > In 1.7.7, when I type > > > > P4 edit hydra_c > > > > and hit the tab key to complete the file name, I get the text "bash: > > _get_comp_words_by_ref(): `preprev': unknown argument" > > followed by the missing part of the filename. > > I believe the bash-completion package is installed. It includes > /etc/bash_completion.d/p4 which is causing your problems. The version of > bash-completion included with 1.5 was not enabled by default, but the > current version is. This is why the problem surfaced with 1.7. (Note > that it has nothing to do with the Cygwin version but the version of > bash-completion instead.) > > You can uninstall the bash-completion package if you don't want it at > all (which is probably true since you hadn't enabled it in 1.5) or > remove the /etc/bash_completion.d/p4 file. > > (Personally, I created a /etc/bash_completion.d/disabled directory and > moved the files I didn't want there, for performance. I suspect I'll > have to manually repeat this every time I update bash-completion. There > may be a better "official" way to disable parts of bash-completion.) > > -- > David Rothenberger ---- daver...@acm.org > > Finagle's First Law: > If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Yes, bash-completion was installed. As I was not relying on it, I took your advice and uninstalled it. One thing I immediately noticed is that bash starts up much, much faster. Prior to uninstalling bash-completion, there was a noticeable (and annoying) delay between clicking on my desktop Cygwin shortcut and the time a bash prompt appeared! Thanks for the help. Andy Hall -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
