05-04-2010
I have a fresh install of Cygwin 1.5.24 (on Vista enterprise). Using tab does not auto complete directories for me. Is there some Bash setup necessary for this to work?
Last edited by boardtc; 05-06-2010 at 07:34 AM..
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