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Re: Absolute path tab completion on Windows

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ram Rachum <ram@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Absolute path tab completion on Windows
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 19:15:45 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 1:06 PM Ram Rachum <ram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For example, if I type /c/Wind and press tab it does not complete to /c/Windows.

That's because /c is not a real directory, it's a representation of
the C: drive mount point.  I'm not sure how the msys2 build of zsh was
done, but if it's based on cygwin, the directory search library is not
providing a way to enumerate files at the top level of a drive mount.

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