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Re: Bug/Request for change - in filename completion behaviour on windo
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Bug/Request for change - in filename completion behaviour on windows platform |
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Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:00:25 -0500 |
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Roland Roeder <roland_roeder@cocreate.com> wrote:
> The filename completion of bash doesn't work as I'd expect it. If
> the given filenames has the form '<drive_letter>:/<pathname>'
> bash seems to ignore the given drive and tries to complete the
> pathname starting from the root.
Right. In path completion, ":" is treated as whitespace for
convenience when setting $PATH, etc.
Chet, would it be difficult to make the set of whitespace characters
configurable?
paul