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-insensitive tab-completion turned on. Me, I like 'shopt -s nocaseglob' in ~/.bashrc, and 'set completion-ignore-case on' in ~/.inputrc, which then means /cygdrive and /Cygwin.bat still have a common '[cC][yY][gG]' prefix, so your trick doesn't help. Yes, that turns a '/c[Tab]' sequence into a '/c[Tab]d[Tab]' (two more keystrokes). :-) Igor That's why I've long since changed cygdrive prefix to /dev! ;-) -- On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key. -- 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/
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 http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://www.palestinefacts.org/ http://pmw.org.il/ http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ nobody's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session -- 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/
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/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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 reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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 necessarily trying to emulate Linux religiously? No. To me /dev is where I would naturally expect a C *drive*, which is not really a file system but a device in my view (IOW I can pull out my C drive, hold it in my hand and say - this is my C device!). Also /dev is short - shorter than cygdrive anyway and I just naturally think, C Drive ~= C Device, D Drive ~= D Device. No, /home for me in a domain environment is usually on the file server thus a mount //server/homeshare /home works just fine. Outside a domain environment C:/Home/User (I've long since hacked the registry to change the usual C:\Documents and Settings - C:\Home) can as easily be mounted with mount c:/home /home. I also do mounts for things like C:\Program Files - /apps, making things like ls /apps/Firetab a breeze. YMMV. There's the You must adhere to pure *nix conventions mentality and there's the I will utilize what the system offers to make my life easier mentality - both with pluses and minuses... -- Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual trip around the sun. -- 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/
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 / to have it done on each cygwin startup -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/ http://www.dhimmi.com/ http://www.palestinefacts.org/ http://ffii.org/ The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. -- 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/
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 like Unix mount points.) So you don't need to edit any shell startup files to change your mounts. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
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; ls /mnt/floppy will show an empty directory. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://www.memri.org/ http://truepeace.org http://www.honestreporting.com http://www.savegushkatif.org UNIX, car: hard to learn/easy to use; Windows, bike: hard to learn/hard to use. -- 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/
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! ls /dev/home Well there are file systems under /dev in a way. Am I necessarily trying to emulate Linux religiously? No. To me /dev is where I would naturally expect a C *drive*, which is not really a file system but a device in my view (IOW I can pull out my C drive, hold it in my hand and say - this is my C device!). Also /dev is short - shorter than cygdrive anyway and I just naturally think, C Drive ~= C Device, D Drive ~= D Device. No, /home for me in a domain environment is usually on the file server thus a mount //server/homeshare /home works just fine. Outside a domain environment C:/Home/User (I've long since hacked the registry to change the usual C:\Documents and Settings - C:\Home) can as easily be mounted with mount c:/home /home. I also do mounts for things like C:\Program Files - /apps, making things like ls /apps/Firetab a breeze. YMMV. There's the You must adhere to pure *nix conventions mentality and there's the I will utilize what the system offers to make my life easier mentality - both with pluses and minuses... 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 just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace. If we ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to have some problems. /mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO. cgf -- 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/
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're coming from but I'm not a purist. I just wouldn't recommend this for the general cygwin populace. If we ever start doing something like udev on cygwin you're going to have some problems. Yes this is the risk. I understand it. /mnt makes a little more sense for an alternate location, IMO. Yes this is a quick alternative though I tend to thing of mounts as mounting of file systems from other machines. I guess I just think Well of course any disk/file system that's present should be mounted already so to me /mnt is for other, not normally mounted file systems from other machines or perhaps floppy/USB, etc. Yes to each his own -- Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White -- 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/
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 /dev/fd /mnt/floppy; reboot; ls /mnt/floppy will show an empty directory. I think that's a reflection of how the mount is defined in /etc/fstab. -- 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/
readline completion
pathname completion in bash (implemented using readline) does not work with woe32 pathnames: this does not work: $ ls c:/ TAB this works: $ ls /cygdrive/c/ TAB is it possible to fix this? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.dhimmi.com/ http://www.camera.org http://www.memri.org/ http://www.savegushkatif.org Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk? -- 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/
Re: readline completion
pathname completion in bash (implemented using readline) does not work with woe32 pathnames: this does not work: $ ls c:/ TAB this works: $ ls /cygdrive/c/ TAB is it possible to fix this? Possible? Yes. Likely to happen? Depends on whether I ever get time to look at it, or if someone beats me to it by providing a patch. Also, which version of bash and readline are you using? bash-3.0-11 introduced the notion of c: being an absolute path to the bash internals; maybe I need to find where readline also needs to be taught that fact. Also, readline 5.1 and bash 3.1 are in alpha, so the fix might not appear until those go mainstream. One other thing to consider - by default, filename completion breaks words at the : character (useful for completing assignments to PATH, among others). So do yourself a favor, and get used to a /cygdrive style pathname, rather than the c: prefix. And if it is too many characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix to /. '/c' is just as many characters as 'c:', but more unix-y: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00017.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00019.html -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin readline maintainer -- 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/
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:/ TAB this works: $ ls /cygdrive/c/ TAB is it possible to fix this? Possible? Yes. Likely to happen? Depends on whether I ever get time to look at it, or if someone beats me to it by providing a patch. Also, which version of bash and readline are you using? bash-3.0-11 introduced the notion of c: being an absolute path to the bash internals; maybe I need to find where readline also needs to be taught that fact. Also, readline 5.1 and bash 3.1 are in alpha, so the fix might not appear until those go mainstream. One other thing to consider - by default, filename completion breaks words at the : character (useful for completing assignments to PATH, among others). So do yourself a favor, and get used to a /cygdrive style pathname, rather than the c: prefix. And if it is too many characters to type, change your cygdrive prefix to /. '/c' is just as many characters as 'c:', but more unix-y: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00017.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2005-08/msg00019.html 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 Enjoy, 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
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 'shopt -s nocaseglob' in ~/.bashrc, and 'set completion-ignore-case on' in ~/.inputrc, which then means /cygdrive and /Cygwin.bat still have a common '[cC][yY][gG]' prefix, so your trick doesn't help. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
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-insensitive tab-completion turned on. Me, I like 'shopt -s nocaseglob' in ~/.bashrc, and 'set completion-ignore-case on' in ~/.inputrc, which then means /cygdrive and /Cygwin.bat still have a common '[cC][yY][gG]' prefix, so your trick doesn't help. Yes, that turns a '/c[Tab]' sequence into a '/c[Tab]d[Tab]' (two more keystrokes). :-) 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! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
