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[ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: bash-completion-20050721-1


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The bash-completion-20050721-1 package has recently been added to the
Cygwin distribution.

DESCRIPTION:
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Provides programmable completion enhancements to bash TAB-completion.
Based on the command you type, hitting TAB later on in the command line
will perform completions on strings that make sense for the context of the
command, rather than blindly completing on filenames.

NOTE:
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You MUST edit your bash startup files to load bash-completion into memory:
make sure ~/.bashrc sources /etc/bash_completion, and ~/.bash_profile
sources ~/.bashrc.  See /etc/defaults/etc/skel/.bashrc (after installing
base-file-3.6-1) for an example.  Bash completions is not enabled by
default because it adds some noticeable startup delay to every interactive
shell (ranging from 1.5 seconds on my 2.5 GHz WinXP, to over 19 seconds on
my 266 MHz Win98).  Depending on the reaction on the cygwin mailing list,
a future release may make bash_completion turned on by default for every
bash user, with no edits to ~/.bashrc required.

UPDATE:
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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up
'bash-completion' from the 'Shells' category.

DOWNLOAD:
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Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't
allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need
to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest
to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

QUESTIONS:
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If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing
list is the appropriate place.

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Eric Blake
(new) volunteer cygwin bash-completion maintainer


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