Hello I've just installed cygwin on a Windows10 laptop and am experiencing a problem with tab completion under bash:
Indeed, bash-completion stops working past the space character when changing to a path that contains a space or an escaped space. For example, I am in /cygdrive/c and type $ cd Pro -> pressing Tab key completes to "cd Program", pressing twice shows all directories with this "Program" prefix: Program Files/ Program Files (x86)/ ProgramData/ However, when I want to cd to "Program Files" and type: $ cd Program\ F -> pressing Tab does nothing: no completion, no suggestion. I found a workaround by removing the _cd() function from /etc/bash_completion but clearly that is not a good way to solve this bug. It is quite possible that tab_completion is not just broken with 'cd' and directories but it *may* also be broken for all files : I just haven't tried (sorry I'm running outta time). I'm not the only one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32166613/tab-completion-doesnt-complete-paths-with-escaped-space my setup: Windows 10 - bash 4.3.42 - everything was installed today (i.e. latest versions) ... The fact that I'm using the latest versions AND that removing a function from /etc/bash_completion suggests that this is a bug... :o) or maybe not ??? -> you tell me ! thanks in advance for your help. P.S.: Will post more under the same subject if I can find some time during the week (maybe a patch). -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
