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Date: Sun 15-Mar-1989 16:16:19 From: Unknown Subject: filename completion in Edit Has anyone else noticed that "Edit" does filename completion, just like the shell? I was typing a pathname into an Edit window, hitting Esc to complete each component, when it dawned on me that I wasn't talking to the shell at all...
Date: Sun 23-Mar-1989 05:19:49 From: Unknown Subject: Re: filename completion in Edit In article <598@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes: >Has anyone else noticed that "Edit" does filename completion, just like >the shell? I was typing a pathname into an Edit window, hitting Esc to >complete each component, when it dawned on me that I wasn't talking to >the shell at all... >-- >Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office >Internet: dorner@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu UUCP: {convex,uunet}!uiucuxc!dorner >IfUMust: (217) 244-1765 Here, here! I've long believed that filename completion should exist everywhere. My fingers expect it constantly, but rarely is it there. I could certainly use it in vi or "smart" argument completion for man, vi and countless others. Unfortunately this isn't very practical.
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