Re: Absolute path tab completion on Windows

You can make symlinks under msys on Windows but it requires some setup. You need to either enable developer mode at the OS level or be running as an administrator, and you have to set the environment variable MSYS to the value winsymlinks:nativestrict.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 3:22 PM Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

please don't top post
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 2:17 PM Ram Rachum <ram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 5:15 AM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> I see. Then what would need to be changed in order to enable this functionality? And in which project would it need to be changed?

Something you can try is make a directory anywhere, i use ~/.cdpath,
and symlink everything in /c/* that you want to access easily, and set
cdpath=( ~/.cdpath ) in your startup files, then you should be able to
just cd Wind<tab> from anywhere. (If you can make symlinks in your
environment, a quick search suggests maybe).

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Mikael Magnusson