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Re: Cygwin path completion
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- From: Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Cygwin path completion
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:01:38 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-reply-to: Peter Stephenson's message of Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:57:56 +0100
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Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > I meant something different. I'd prefer if
> > /c/d/t would still complete to /cygdrive/d/temp. I meant, that
> > _path_files (BTW I agree that it already deserves to be converted to
> > shell code. It may even give old compctl the ability to complete paths)
> > should simply stuff cygdrive as first component. In the above case the
> > possible completions would consist of
>
> This is far too specific to be hard-wired into _path_files, but maybe
> there's some way of specifying transformations. I still don't understand
> how that helps you since I don't see when you want cygdrive to be the first
> component. It seems to me you should be using a named directory or
> something, e.g.
>
> c=/cygdrive
> : ~c
> echo ~c/d/...
>
> You can hardly get fewer characters than that.
Right.
I forgot to say... the fake-path thing I just suggested could also
help us to do something I've been missing some time ago (and then
forgot again, of course, sigh): completion of auto-mounted directories.
Bye
Sven
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