Index: bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README =================================================================== --- bash-3.2.orig/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README +++ bash-3.2/CYGWIN-PATCHES/bash.README @@ -62,7 +62,15 @@ of completion and PATH searching. The `t are not affected. Use this variable to prevent non-executables uselessly appearing in completion lists; EXECIGNORE=*.dll is quite useful. -9. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than +9. This version of bash has a Cygwin-specific shell option +completion_strip_exe. It is enabled by default. With this option on, +whenever bash sees a file "foo.exe" when trying to complete a command +name, it checks whether Cygwin has generated a pseudo-hardlinked "foo" +short name for the file and uses that instead. The end result is that +the names of native Windows programs are completed normally, resulting +in a more Unix-like experience overall. This substitution does not +occur if "foo.exe" and "foo" are, in fact, different files. +10. If you don't like how bash behaves, then propose a patch, rather than proposing idle ideas. This turn of events has already been talked to death on the mailing lists by people with many ideas, but few patches.
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