RE: /tmp

RE: /tmp

[Vince Hoffman]

I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp ? c:\tmp ? (i
dont have either of these on various of the computers i have installed
cygwin on.)
	I suppose "ln -s `echo $TEMP` /tmp" would work but i quite like
having my cygwin specific temp files in a cygwin specific /tmp. 
I would have thought this should be a user choice rather than a default.
(just my 2 cents or whatever that is in pence these days.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnie Boyd [mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent: 09 December 2002 18:54
> To: Jim
> Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: /tmp
> 
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> Wrong list, redirected.  Please remove cygwin-apps@cygwin.com 
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> distribution when responding.
> 
> Jim wrote:
> > Would be really really nice if /tmp existed as a link that 
> a directory 
> > /tmp weren't created after running setup...
> 

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RE: /tmp

[news]

On 09 Dec 2002, Vince Hoffman <Vince.Hoffman@uk.circle.com>
wrote: 

> I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp
> ? c:\tmp ? (i dont have either of these on various of the
> computers i have installed cygwin on.)

Probably the same as pointed to by the 'DOS' TMP/TEMP environ 
variable.

>      I suppose "ln -s `echo $TEMP` /tmp" would work but i

ISTR trying this, or something similar, some months ago, but 
Cygwin insisted on restoring the directory when I restarted 
(whether it was when I restarted bash or the computer I don't 
recall).

> I would have thought this should be a user choice
> rather than a default.

Yup, that sounds the best way to me.

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Re: /tmp

[Shankar Unni]

Vince Hoffman wrote:
> I'm intrigued, where would you have it point then ? c:\temp ? c:\tmp ? 

No, to <cygwin-install-dir>\tmp.  Ditto for /etc.

I had tried this same thing earlier: I was using a mount map where "/" 
was mounted on "c:/" (I have only one disk), and I had a c:/usr 
directory containing symlinks to c:/cygwin/usr/* or c:/cygwin/* as 
appropriate.

And I had /etc -> c:/cygwin/etc, but each time I ran setup, it would 
break this link and create an almost empty directory with just 
setup/last-cache and setup/last-mirror.  Anyway, I gave up the idea soon.

(The reason is because I use a *native* tcsh as my shell, which has some 
NT-specific extensions for filename completion (complete=igncase), 
titlebar setting, etc. But the filename completion is (naturally) 
unaware of cygwin mounts, so I was trying to get the setup to look as 
much like the native structure as possible, while allowing things like 
"man" to still find their files).

Anyway, I've given up that idea, and just deal with the mental bump when 
doing filename completion of something in the cygwin tree. The command 
line does one thing, and "ls" does another...
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Re: /tmp

[Soren A]

Shankar Unni <shankar@cotagesoft.com> wrote around 10 Dec 2002
news:at5bsm$9qn$1@main.gmane.org:

> (The reason is because I use a *native* tcsh as my shell, which has
> some NT-specific extensions for filename completion
> (complete=igncase), titlebar setting, etc. But the filename completion
> is (naturally) unaware of cygwin mounts, so I was trying to get the
> setup to look as much like the native structure as possible, while
> allowing things like "man" to still find their files).
>
> Anyway, I've given up that idea, and just deal with the mental bump
> when doing filename completion of something in the cygwin tree. The
> command line does one thing, and "ls" does another...

This is interesting. You are the second person in the last three weeks
who has talked about using this native tcsh shell (the other was
off-List).

I sure wouldn't find it worthwhile to use a different shell (that
doesn't understand what Cygwin has to do with mounts, and so on), but if
there's one thing I've learned, its that you can nenver tell another
person what they should like in a shell. Each to his own.

 Soren A

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Re: /tmp

[Shankar Unni]

Soren A wrote:

 > [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in
> a shell. 

Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive 
filename completion, which is invaluable on Windows. I need to look at 
the tcsh source and see if it is implemented within an "#ifdef WIN32" 
like block. It would be nice if the feature was automatically also 
available in the cygwin build of tcsh ..
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Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

[Michael A Chase]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:07:37 -0800 Shankar Unni <shankar@cotagesoft.com> wrote:

> Soren A wrote:
> 
>  > [...] you can nenver tell another person what they should like in
> > a shell. 
> 
> Well (sorry for OT drift), the main thing was the case-insensitive 
> filename completion, which is invaluable on Windows. I need to look at 
> the tcsh source and see if it is implemented within an "#ifdef WIN32" 
> like block. It would be nice if the feature was automatically also 
> available in the cygwin build of tcsh ..

I use case insensitive completion all the time in Cygwin bash.
The following lines in ~/.inputrc control that feature for bash and may
affect other shells that use the same input library.

  # Ignore case while completing
  set completion-ignore-case on

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Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

[Shankar Unni]

Michael A Chase wrote:

>   # Ignore case while completing
>   set completion-ignore-case on

Hmm. Thanks!  Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see "set 
complete=enhance". Is there a difference? The latter seems to work as 
I'd expect it to, so I'm now beginning my Big Move To Cygwin Tcsh :-/.




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Re: completion-ignore-case (was: /tmp)

[Michael A Chase]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:12:56 -0800 Shankar Unni <shankar@cotagesoft.com> wrote:

> Michael A Chase wrote:
> 
> >   # Ignore case while completing
> >   set completion-ignore-case on
> 
> Hmm. Thanks!  Now that I RTFM more closely, I also see "set 
> complete=enhance". Is there a difference? The latter seems to work as 
> I'd expect it to, so I'm now beginning my Big Move To Cygwin Tcsh :-/.

I looked in the fine manual for tcsh after I sent my email and found
the same thing.  I don't know if ~/.inputrc applies to tcsh at all.

If you find any other differences between Cygwin and Linux tcsh, they may
be of interest since the intention is to make things as much alike as
practical.

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