Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3468 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 April 2007 13:10, James Knott wrote:
> Clayton wrote:
> >> paragraphs, but reuse those paragraph with the command history. In
> >> some ways one can be more lazy with the command line than with a
> >> gui when you know what you are doing :-)
> >
> > Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete
> > (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've never
> > discovered it) and up arrow to the previous command :-P  Instead
> > they laboriously retype the commands or type in long paths... and
> > typos are inevitable... sigh.
> >
> > C.
>
> How do you do command completion in XP???

Hit tab. You may need to enable it using one of the various "tweaker" 
tools (or, if you're really a hardcore Windows hacker, edit the 
registry). In X-Setup Pro (<http://www.x-setup.net/>), it's Program 
Options -> Built-In Windows Apps -> Command Prompt -> CMD Directory 
AutoComplete Key and ... -> CMD File AutoComplete Key.


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Randall Schulz
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