Re: how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of 'extensions'

2010-07-13 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/13/10 9:01 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Ran across this one today and tried it again. I don't > know why, but when it first came out, I gave it a try to accomplish > similar, but had no luck. Now it's working as I _think_ it's > supposed to be (?). > > FIGNORE=".dll;.DLL" > (assuming defau

Re: how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of 'extensions'

2010-07-13 Thread Linda Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: You have to modify the source. findcmd.c:executable_file and findcmd.c:file_status are the functions to change. Bash just uses the standard exec bit. --- Ran across this one today and tried it again. I don't know why, but when it first came out, I gave it a try to a

Re: how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of 'extensions'

2010-07-12 Thread Chet Ramey
On 7/12/10 6:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > I have a long standing problem under cygwin in that when I type > a prefix of 1 or more executables and hit the expand character (ESC), > it lists out all the DLL's in my system path. > > I NEVER want to execute libraries directly. Many or most are > not e

how to limit autofill of executables in 'cygwin-bash' to a list of 'extensions'

2010-07-12 Thread Linda Walsh
I have a long standing problem under cygwin in that when I type a prefix of 1 or more executables and hit the expand character (ESC), it lists out all the DLL's in my system path. I NEVER want to execute libraries directly. Many or most are not executables -- yet bash lists them. In Windows, th