Autocompletion in various shells and directory watching support

[Elfy]

I've noticed that autocompletion doesn't work in cmd on zfs filesystem. Is it normal/not just my system? msys2/bash autocompletion works. Powershell autocompletion kinda works, but I think it's just how PS is, I'm not used to its quirks. But cmd doesn't work right at all -- no matter what you start typing, Tab will replace it entirely and start listing everything from the beginning (it does list it though, so it's not entirely not working?.. just entirely useless xD). Pattern matching doesn't work in cmd either, i.e. dir *.txt just lists full content of a directory on zfs filesystem. Works in bash and PS.

Bug? Feature? My system it weird? To be implemented?

Same question about Directory watching (ReadDirectoryChanges/FindFirstChangeNotification. It doesn't seem to be working at all. Any hope on that?

[sskras]

But cmd doesn't work right at all -- no matter what you start typing, Tab will replace it entirely and start listing everything from the beginning

Have you tried the autocompletion with no OpenZFS for Windows installed?
I am sure such behavior is unrelated to this project.

If you want to get autocompletion in cmd, there are other, 3rd party projects available like @Mattlk13/clink.

[Elfy]

Have you tried the autocompletion with no OpenZFS for Windows installed? I am sure such behavior is unrelated to this project.

Wdym? It works perfectly fine with OpenZFS for Windows installed. Just not on zfs volume. And obviously I can't test how it performs on zfs volume without zfs drivers. My guess is that bash and PS just do things the hard way, while cmd relies on some legacy windows magic. Which OpenZFS might not support. Or it's my system. Mind checking if it works for you?

[lundman]

Oh as in "dir directory/start_with" ? Guess I didn't try

[Elfy]

Don't need anything so complicated. Just go to some directory with files, type some file's first letters, press tab. For me instead of completion it starts printing all the filenames from the start and cycles through all of them. TBH more worrying is lack of pattern matching. Probably related too. like dir *.txt will list everything instead. (But not if there's no *.txt at all. Has to be at least one file that's matching.)

[sskras]

Wdym? It works perfectly fine with OpenZFS for Windows installed. Just not on zfs volume.

Oh... For me the way you described this, it looked like a default behavior of CMD on NTFS volume too. Quoting:

no matter what you start typing, Tab will replace it entirely and start listing everything from the beginning

IMO technically Tab replaces filename occurring near the cursor entirely (that you were just editing) and lists/rebuilds the whole filename from its' beginning.

But now I likely get a possible ambiguity of the description's text. Usually it's easier to understand by having a visual representation of the issue. :)

Mind checking if it works for you?

Now that I got a different understanding of your text, I will try that. Thanks for the patience.