Re: readline completion

Sam Steingold wrote: * Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-17 19:30:14 +]: Mounts are persistent. Running the command just once will make it affect all future cygwin startups, until you rerun mount or umount. thanks! (Just like Unix mount points.) Not on linux. mount

Re: readline completion

Christopher Faylor wrote: Yes, I understood that if you are using /dev in this way that it is purely an idiosyncratic thing that doesn't necessarily make any sense when you consider the pure UNIX sense of what /dev is supposed to be for. i.e. the Unix purist view. Hey I understand where you'r

Re: readline completion

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:00:29AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:18:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >>>That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-) >> >>Because we all know how linux loves to put filesystems under /dev

Re: readline completion

> * Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-17 19:30:14 +]: > > Mounts are persistent. Running the command just once will make it > affect all future cygwin startups, until you rerun mount or umount. thanks! > (Just like Unix mount points.) Not on linux. mount /dev/fd /mnt/floppy; reboot; l

Re: readline completion

> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#id4748539 > > thanks. > where do I put > > mount --change-cygdrive-prefix / Read that full webpage. Mounts are persistent. Running the command just once will make it affect all future cygwin startups, until you rerun mount or umount. (Just

Re: readline completion

> * Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-17 13:55:59 +]: > >> > And if it is too many characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix >> > to /. >> >> how do I do that? > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#id4748539 thanks. where do I put mount --change-cygdrive-prefix /

Re: readline completion

Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:18:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-) Because we all know how linux loves to put filesystems under /dev! ls /dev/home Well there are file systems under /dev in a way. Am I n

Re: readline completion

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:18:20PM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-) Because we all know how linux loves to put filesystems under /dev! ls /dev/home etc. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem r

Re: readline completion

> > And if it is too many characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix > > to /. > > how do I do that? > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#id4748539 -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/pro

Re: readline completion

> * Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-16 22:53:24 +]: > > And if it is too many characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix > to /. how do I do that? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k

Re: readline completion

Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless Tab-completion of /cygdrive: cd / && \ mkdir /cygdrive && \ cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \ cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico Only if you don't have case-i

Re: readline completion

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > > Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless > > Tab-completion of /cygdrive: > > > > cd / && \ > > mkdir /cygdrive && \ > > cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \ > > cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico > > Only if you don't have case-i

Re: readline completion

> > Besides, a one-time sequence of commands below will allow painless > Tab-completion of /cygdrive: > > cd / && \ > mkdir /cygdrive && \ > cmd /c ren cygwin.bat Cygwin.bat && \ > cmd /c ren cygwin.ico Cygwin.ico Only if you don't have case-insensitive tab-completion turned on. Me, I like 'shop

Re: readline completion

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Eric Blake wrote: > > pathname completion in bash (implemented using readline) does not work > > with woe32 pathnames: > > this does not work: > > $ ls c:/ > > this works: > > $ ls /cygdrive/c/ > > > > is it possible to fix this? > > Possible? Yes. Likely to happen? Depend

Re: readline completion

> pathname completion in bash (implemented using readline) does not work > with woe32 pathnames: > this does not work: > $ ls c:/ > this works: > $ ls /cygdrive/c/ > > is it possible to fix this? > Possible? Yes. Likely to happen? Depends on whether I ever get time to look at it, or if someo