Re: Eliminating floppy access when completing under Cygwin

[Seth Kurtzberg <seth@xxxxxxx>]

Mount the floppy at some level with more segments to the path, so it 
won't be a potential completion here.  Check the cygwin mount command, 
which is quite strange and of course doesn't mount anything.

On Dec 16, 2003, at 4:17 AM, Hannu Koivisto wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I use zsh 4.0.6 under Cygwin.  If I try to complete an absolute
> path like this: ls /cygdrive/c/Prog<tab>, or a relative path that
> includes a drive letter like this: cd /cygdrive/d; ls
> ../c/Prog<tab>, zsh seems to access the floppy drive.  That
> obviously slows down the completion.  I wonder if it tries to
> access all the other drives (some of which are mapped from network
> on the machine in question) as well...
>
> I have a suspicion that this might actually be a feature, since I
> think I have seen zsh complete something like /foo/bar/qu<tab> to
> /foo/baz/quux.  In any case, is there a way to get rid of this
> behaviour?
>
> --
> Hannu
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