Re: Bug/Request for change - in filename completion behaviour on windows platform

[Roland Roeder]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
> |> 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?
>
> Just quote the ":".


Hmmm, I think that this as inconvenient as using the /cygdrive/<drive_letter>/
method. I'm writing such pathnames tons of times during a day. If I'd have to
type these two quotes each time, it would slow down me significantly - 
especially
since the quotes require to use shift+key.

So, I'd really much prefer to be able to avoid this.
Wouldn't it be possible to make it customizeable - let's say by means of an
environment variable. Such a change would be straight forward - I believe.

 Thanks,
   Roland


> Andreas.


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