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Re: Tab Completion and Typical Behavior
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:58 -0700, Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
wrote:
> ...are you in ~/bin when you try to tab-complete ./myscript.sh? If you
> are in ~, then the path would be bin/myscript.sh, not ./myscript.sh.
> (Does trying to complete the full path (~/bin/myscript.sh) work?)
>> ~ $ .~/bin/myscript<DOES NOT complete>
>> cygdrive/g/ $ ./myscript<DOES NOT complete>
>
>Huh? Are you just trying random things? Neither of those should
>complete because they're invalid. "." means the current directory. So,
>typing ./foo means "a file named foo in the current directory", and if
>you're in /cygdrive/g there is no such file myscript.sh, thus nothing to
>complete. .~/bin is even more nonsensical.
>
Yes, I am trying random things in response to the previous poster. It
may lead me to a better understanding of the issue; most of the time
it sends me on a tangent.
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