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From: hughesmp@vax1.tcd.ie
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Subject: Re: Continuing gripes about filename conventions...
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.233802.7783@vax1.tcd.ie>
Date: 13 Feb 91 23:38:02 GMT
References: <795@utrcu1.UUCP> <1991Feb11.100559.15181@and.cs.liv.ac.uk> <6733@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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In article <6733@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, rhh88@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Heywood RH) writes:

> One nice feature in UNIX is the ability to
> hit ESC when you're half way through typeing a filename in, and let unix
> see if it can guess which file you mean!

Just a point, in case you don't know it; the utility !LineEdit by Richard (RKL)
supports this very feature; as opposed to Escape, however, you hit tab, and it
will complete the filename, or if there are ambiguities, will go as far as it
can, and then beep. The utility itself alters the operation of the COPY and
arrow keys, giving a VAX-style way of recalling past lines, and editing the
lines with the left and right arrows... This is very useful for doing CLI based
stuff, but I find gets in the way a bit when programming.

Just in case you didn't realise...

T.