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Cygwin completion fails on mounted paths
- X-seq: zsh-users 6060
- From: Bill Burton <billb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ZSH Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Cygwin completion fails on mounted paths
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:15:08 -0400
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- Organization: Progress Software Corporation
Hello,
I found the discussion earlier this month "ZSH DOS/Windows" rather
informative. This got me looking at some problems I've had using zsh as
my default shell under Cygwin. This is zsh 4.0.6 installed from a
recent Cygwin setup.
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 nbbillb 1.3.20(0.73/3/2) 2003-02-08 12:10 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin
The problem I'm having is that zsh refuses to complete on mounted paths:
$ mount
C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
C:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
C: on /c type system (textmode)
If I try to complete on /c/<C-D>, zsh just barks at me. After some
experimentation, I found the work around is to *not* set HOME to
something that uses a mount. But I want my HOME in a different place
than the default that's based on HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH.
The following hack seems to work. First in My Computer, Environment
variables, I created a CYGWIN_HOME User variable set to
/cygdrive/c/home. Then, I modified /etc/zprofile adding the following
after the USER="`id -un`" line:
# Get a specfic home directory
if [ -n "$CYGWIN_HOME" ]; then
if [ -d "$CYGWIN_HOME" ]; then
HOME="$CYGWIN_HOME"
else
echo "CYGWIN_HOME points to a non existant directory!"
fi
fi
Then, I created a zygwin.bat script in my Cygwin root directory C:\cygwin:
@echo off
C:
chdir C:\cygwin\bin
zsh -l -i
So, I guess there's a bug in the completion and/or the way HOME is handled.
-Bill
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