From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@cql.com>
To: Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>
Cc: Zsh Users' List <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Eliminating floppy access when completing under Cygwin
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 04:21:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <06DE535C-2FBA-11D8-AC87-000A959AF1CE@cql.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ptepc8qw.fsf@lynx.tre-1.ionific.com>
Mount the floppy at some level with more segments to the path, so it
won't be a potential completion here. Check the cygwin mount command,
which is quite strange and of course doesn't mount anything.
On Dec 16, 2003, at 4:17 AM, Hannu Koivisto wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I use zsh 4.0.6 under Cygwin. If I try to complete an absolute
> path like this: ls /cygdrive/c/Prog<tab>, or a relative path that
> includes a drive letter like this: cd /cygdrive/d; ls
> ../c/Prog<tab>, zsh seems to access the floppy drive. That
> obviously slows down the completion. I wonder if it tries to
> access all the other drives (some of which are mapped from network
> on the machine in question) as well...
>
> I have a suspicion that this might actually be a feature, since I
> think I have seen zsh complete something like /foo/bar/qu<tab> to
> /foo/baz/quux. In any case, is there a way to get rid of this
> behaviour?
>
> --
> Hannu
>
>
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2003-12-16 11:17 Hannu Koivisto
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2003-12-17 9:01 ` Hannu Koivisto
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