TAB-completion and filesystem problem

TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[Sylvain Petreolle]

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I encounter a strange behaviour with cygwin.
I am in $HOME.

Nom@snoop ~
$ ls -ld musique MPlayer/
drwxr-xr-x   26 Nom      544             0 Jun 28
01:03 MPlayer/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Nom      544           145 Jun 28
01:33 musique -> /cygdrive/c/M
es documents/Ma musique/

in MPlayer the file etc/input.conf exists :
$ ls -ld MPlayer/etc/input.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 Nom      544          1201 Mar 19
14:27 MPlayer/etc/input.conf

I go in musique (also symbolic link) and hit this :
cp ../MPlayer/etc/inp and press TAB to complete the
name.
then appears this, as waited :
$ cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf
but the result of
cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf / is :
$ cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf /
cp: cannot stat `../MPlayer/etc/input.conf': No such
file or directory

so the problem is : TAB completion finds the file, but
cp doesn't.

I also attached output of cygcheck -s -r -v.

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Re: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[Sylvain Petreolle]

Thank you for tips about tcsh,
but ...
I'm not using tcsh (I should have reported it),
I'm using bash as shell.

There is a misunderstanding :

bash doesn't refuse to tab-complete, it tab-completes
where it shouldn't have found the file... or is cp
buggy ?
Please review my mail.

Little question to see which one has problems :
when using a symbolic link named 'slink' in the
directory /var/dir,
and slink points to /usr/dir2 :

you are in /var/dir/link (aka /usr/dir2).
does ../file points to /var/dir/file or /usr/file ?



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Re: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:16:05PM -0700, C. J. wrote:
> 
> >>I think this is a lame 'feature' of tcsh.
> >>If you start your cmdline with 'cp' or 'mv',
> >>it refuses to tab-complete the 2nd argument,
> >>maybe to prevent you from accidently overwriting
> >>a file by forcing you to type the full name.
> >>I wish there was a way to disable this.
> >
> >There is.  Reading /etc/cshrc.* and especially 'man tcsh' could help.
> 
> Arrgh, I hate digging through man pages to fix stuff that was working fine 
> for years.  OK, for all those out there having problems with this:
> you need to go to /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh and '#' comment out the lines 
> 
> for 'complete mv' and 'complete cp'.

Oh boy.  Did you see the following two lines in /etc/csh.cshrc:

# If we find $HOME/.{t}cshrc we skip our settings used for interactive sessions.
if (-r "$HOME/.cshrc" || -r "$HOME/.tcshrc") goto end

Probably not.  Btw., *my* ~/.cshrc file contains a line

uncomplete *

which has the surprisingly effect that I don't have to change the
files from the distro...

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Re: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[C. J.]

>>I think this is a lame 'feature' of tcsh.
>>If you start your cmdline with 'cp' or 'mv',
>>it refuses to tab-complete the 2nd argument,
>>maybe to prevent you from accidently overwriting
>>a file by forcing you to type the full name.
>>I wish there was a way to disable this.
>
>There is.  Reading /etc/cshrc.* and especially 'man tcsh' could help.

Arrgh, I hate digging through man pages to fix stuff that was working fine 
for years.  OK, for all those out there having problems with this:
you need to go to /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh and '#' comment out the lines 
for 'complete mv' and 'complete cp'.

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Re: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:27:29PM -0700, C. J. wrote:
> 
> I think this is a lame 'feature' of tcsh.
> If you start your cmdline with 'cp' or 'mv',
> it refuses to tab-complete the 2nd argument,
> maybe to prevent you from accidently overwriting
> a file by forcing you to type the full name.
> I wish there was a way to disable this.

There is.  Reading /etc/cshrc.* and especially 'man tcsh' could help.

Corinna

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RE: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

[C. J.]

I think this is a lame 'feature' of tcsh.
If you start your cmdline with 'cp' or 'mv',
it refuses to tab-complete the 2nd argument,
maybe to prevent you from accidently overwriting
a file by forcing you to type the full name.
I wish there was a way to disable this.

-------------------
I encounter a strange behaviour with cygwin.
I am in $HOME.

Nom@snoop ~
$ ls -ld musique MPlayer/
drwxr-xr-x   26 Nom      544             0 Jun 28
01:03 MPlayer/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 Nom      544           145 Jun 28
01:33 musique -> /cygdrive/c/M
es documents/Ma musique/

in MPlayer the file etc/input.conf exists :
$ ls -ld MPlayer/etc/input.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 Nom      544          1201 Mar 19
14:27 MPlayer/etc/input.conf

I go in musique (also symbolic link) and hit this :
cp ../MPlayer/etc/inp and press TAB to complete the
name.
then appears this, as waited :
$ cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf
but the result of
cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf / is :
$ cp ../MPlayer/etc/input.conf /
cp: cannot stat `../MPlayer/etc/input.conf': No such
file or directory

so the problem is : TAB completion finds the file, but
cp doesn't.


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