Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Eliot Moss moss at cs.umass.edu writes: On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrey Repin anrdaemon at yandex.ru writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and what M-/ means? M is for meta, as in the meta escape key functionality in

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-25 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/25/2014 4:36 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Eliot Moss moss at cs.umass.edu writes: On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrey Repin anrdaemon at yandex.ru writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and what M-/ means? From

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-24 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Andrey Repin anrdaemon at yandex.ru writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: I think I will need to deepen my knowledge into the bowels of unix. This thread is the first I've heard that completion depended on the command being typed. Thanks, all. That's the reason for bash-completion package. If you

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-24 Thread Eliot Moss
On 9/24/2014 6:19 PM, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrey Repin anrdaemon at yandex.ru writes: Paul.Domaskis wrote: Can anyone suggest how the bash-completion man page is acccessed, and what M-/ means? M is for meta, as in the meta escape key functionality in Emacs. This will work according to the

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-19 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Gary Johnson garyjohn at spocom.com writes: David is right: find does accept a file name as the path argument. I didn't know that. (Obviously.) The man page doesn't really say, but all references to the path argument suggest that it contains a directory or list of directories.

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-19 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Paul.Domaskis! David is right: find does accept a file name as the path argument. I didn't know that. (Obviously.) The man page doesn't really say, but all references to the path argument suggest that it contains a directory or list of directories. Nevertheless, the completion

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread David Boyce
The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like find /etc/passwd -print would show. David On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote:

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 9/18/2014 11:42 AM, David Boyce wrote: The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like find /etc/passwd -print would show. Or just find /etc/passwd. (-print has been the default for decades... The

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Andrew DeFaria Andrew at DeFaria.com writes: On 9/18/2014 11:42 AM, David Boyce wrote: The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like find /etc/passwd -print would show. Or just find /etc/passwd.

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-18, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Andrew DeFaria Andrew at DeFaria.com writes: On 9/18/2014 11:42 AM, David Boyce wrote: The path argument to find must be a directory. Sorry, but I can't let this go by. The statement above is incorrect, as a simple test like find /etc/passwd -print

No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type ls _ or ls _v and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't really do anything about it because it

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Paul.Domaskis writes: I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type ls _ or ls _v and press tab -- nothing happens. I can't really do

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Paul . Domaskis
Paul.Domaskis writes: Paul.Domaskis writes: I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type ls _ or ls _v and press tab -- nothing happens.

Re: No file name completion for file names start with underscore

2014-09-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2014-09-17, Paul.Domaskis wrote: Paul.Domaskis writes: Paul.Domaskis writes: I'm using the following 64-bit packages: cygwin 1.7.28-2 bash-completion 1.3-1 If I am in a folder that contains file _vimrc and directory _vimfiles, filename completion doesn't respond. I type ls _