Tab autocomplete is going mad.. Either A) It waits for a while, in which time I can't type anything, then it gives a beep and exits, letting me type, but not displaying anything or B) It waits for a while, then says there are loads of possibilities
I'll demonstrate showing how it is for this directory. First i'll show the directories contents in regular cmd.exe Then i'll show the tab behaviour. There isn't much to show for case A(the case of the beep). But i'll show for Case B(the long listing). And i'm sure if Case A or B is solved, Case A and case B will be solved. So let's look at Case B(the long listing). Here are the real contents of the ccc directory C:\cygwin\home>cd user C:\cygwin\home\user>cd ccc C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc>dir Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is B411-D580 Directory of C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc 13/04/2015 10:08 PM <DIR> . 13/04/2015 10:08 PM <DIR> .. 13/04/2015 10:08 PM 0 r 1 File(s) 0 bytes 2 Dir(s) 7,146,205,184 bytes free C:\cygwin\home\user\ccc> Or the real contents from cygwin with ls (rather than tab) user@comp ~/ccc $ pwd /home/user/ccc user@comp ~/ccc $ ls r user@comp ~/ccc $ ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 user None 0 Apr 13 22:08 r user@comp ~/ccc $ Going into cygwin- C:\cygwin>cygwin<ENTER> For some reason tab is going mad in cygwin user@comp ~/ccc <---- I hit Tab $ Display all 2382 possibilities? (y or n) ! ) ./ : [ [.exe [[ ]] _DataOracleClientPerfCounters_shared12_neutral.h _DataOracleClientPerfCounters_shared12_neutral.ini _DataPerfCounters.h _DataPerfCounters.ini _dataperfcounters_shared12_neutral.h _dataperfcounters_shared12_neutral.ini _NetworkingPerfCounters.h _Networkingperfcounters.ini _NetworkingPerfCounters_v2.h _Networkingperfcounters_v2.ini _SMSvcHostPerfCounters.h _SMSvcHostPerfCounters.ini _TransactionBridgePerfCounters.h _TransactionBridgePerfCounters.ini { } 1 3rd-party-licenses.txt 7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-0.C7483456-A289-439 7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-1.C7483456-A289-439 a.a a.b a.txt a2p.exe aaclient.mof --More-- user@comp ~/ccc $ -- -- 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