Re: More bizzare Bash-2.04-5 auto-completion problems

[Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:14:31AM +0100, Sagar R. Shah wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I am also suffering from the problem of not being able to use bash to
> autocomplete script names of scripts that are in my path.
> 
> But before this becomes a 'me too' post, i've also noticed something else.
> When i do:
> 
> S<tab><tab>
> 
> I get:
> 
> SAMPLES       SETVER.EXE    SORT.EXE      SVUNINST.EXE  SendTo
> SCANDISK.EXE  SIGVERIF.EXE  SRS           SYS.COM       ShellNew
> SCANDSKW.EXE  SMARTDRV.EXE  ST5UNST.EXE   SYSBCKUP      Start Menu
> SCANREG.EXE   SNDREC32.EXE  START.EXE     SYSMON.EXE
> SCANREGW.EXE  SNDVOL32.EXE  SUBST.EXE     SYSTEM
> SETDEBUG.EXE  SOL.EXE       SULFNBK.EXE   SYSTEM32
> 
> Now as well as including EXEs which should be there, there are also
> subdirectories of folders that are in my path.
> 
> The above command was executed from $HOME. But, for example, SendTo and
> Start Menu are both subdirectories of /c/WINDOWS. And SRS is a subdirectory
> of my /c/WORK/RELEASE/LIB
> 
> Should bash be doing this?  I tried the same on a linux box (which was
> running an older verison of bash) and it doesn't.
> 
> I can't see any benifit of autocompleting directory names before a command
> has first been entered. (ie. i agree that  cd S<tab><tab>  should list
> sub-directories of the current directory).

Ok, I just checked that with 2.05-4 and 2.05-1, which is the version
using exactly the sources retrieved from ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash .

That behaviour is bash-2.05 behaviour and I've built it on Linux as
well to check that. It behaves the same way. So I would like to ask
you to move that discussion to the bash mailing list bug-bash@gnu.org.

Corinna

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