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From: carlton@betelgeuse (Mike Carlton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: filename completion in Edit
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Date: 23 Mar 89 05:19:49 GMT
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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.
--
Mike Carlton, UC Berkeley Computer Science
Home: carlton@ji.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton
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Mike Carlton, UC Berkeley Computer Science
Home: carlton@ji.berkeley.edu or ...!ucbvax!ji!carlton