On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote: > > > >> I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name > >> like "cyg", and the command completion character and getting a long list > >> of DLL's with a few EXE's thrown in. > >> > >> I had been told it could be fixed through adjustment of the bash command > >> completion or in the readline completion used by bash. This doesn't > >> appear to be a straight forward solution. > > > >Have you looked into it? It's easy in bash: > > FIGNORE > > A colon-separated list of suffixes to ignore when performing > > filename completion (see READLINE below). A filename whose > > suffix matches one of the entries in FIGNORE is excluded from > > the list of matched filenames. A sample value is ".o:~". > > Great point. Thanks, Pierre. > Should this be a default in a .profile (or equivalent) somewhere?
Unfortunately, this isn't necessarily good to have as a default setting, since putting .dll in $FIGNORE will disable completion in all cases, not just when searching for an executable. In other words, if you have a file foo.dll, and try to get gcc to link with it while having .dll in $FIGNORE, typing in "gcc blah.c foo<TAB>" will not produce a match with foo.dll (same with "cp", etc). If there were a way to restrict .dll completion *only* for cases when an executable is needed, that would be a good candidate for a default setting. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/