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Re: Can "DLL's" & libraries be marked as non-executable?
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:56:57PM -0800, linda w wrote:
> >
> >> I was told I might fix the problem of typing in a partial command name
> >> like "cyg", and the command completion character and getting a long list
> >> of DLL's with a few EXE's thrown in.
> >>
> >> I had been told it could be fixed through adjustment of the bash command
> >> completion or in the readline completion used by bash. This doesn't
> >> appear to be a straight forward solution.
> >
> >Have you looked into it? It's easy in bash:
> > FIGNORE
> > A colon-separated list of suffixes to ignore when performing
> > filename completion (see READLINE below). A filename whose
> > suffix matches one of the entries in FIGNORE is excluded from
> > the list of matched filenames. A sample value is ".o:~".
>
> Great point. Thanks, Pierre.
> Should this be a default in a .profile (or equivalent) somewhere?
Unfortunately, this isn't necessarily good to have as a default setting,
since putting .dll in $FIGNORE will disable completion in all cases, not
just when searching for an executable. In other words, if you have a file
foo.dll, and try to get gcc to link with it while having .dll in $FIGNORE,
typing in "gcc blah.c foo<TAB>" will not produce a match with foo.dll
(same with "cp", etc). If there were a way to restrict .dll completion
*only* for cases when an executable is needed, that would be a good
candidate for a default setting.
Igor
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