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From: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Minor 4dos gripe
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Date: 10 Dec 90 14:28:14 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.213015.258@sj.ate.slb.com>
Reply-To: sweh@tharr.UUCP (Stephen Harris)
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In article <1990Dec4.213015.258@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>I have a minor gripe with 4dos. The file completion feature is nice (F9), but
>if more than one file matches the string you are trying to complete, it
>completes to one of the files. If that isn't the one you want, you must re-edit
>the line.

I think you'll find that F9 shows the first match, then pressing F9
again will remove that and replace it with the second match.  Pressing it
again will show the third match etc.
If, instead, you press F10 after finding a match it will enter a SPACE and
then display the second match as a second parameter (not a good description)
 allowing you to find MATCH.OBJ MATCH.BAK (for example) but not MATCH.C and
MATCH.EXE by judicious use of these keys (maybe F9 F10 F9, depending on the
order they are stored in the directory).


>
>A better behavior, like used on most UNIX shells with this feature, is to
>complete up to the first non-common character and beep, or flash the screen.

I too prefer this method, but I suppose its because its the one I am more
used to :-)

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