RE: TAB-completion and filesystem problem

["C. J." <dusk47@hotmail.com>]

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.

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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.


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