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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm question: filecompletion/'attribution' variable
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.050626.12526@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 2 Aug 90 05:06:26 GMT
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janssen@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Rik Janssen) writes:

>Does anyone know of an option in Elm which allows you, when saving
>files in an existing folder, not to type the whole foldername, but only
>the first few (significant) characters and then completes the filename by
>pressing <ESC> (or another key)?

>(This much resembles like the 'set filec' feature in the c-shell).

We're currently discussing this very issue in the development group.
It will not arrive before elm 2.4, which is somewhere between nine
and fifteen months away.