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From: landman@hanami.Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman x61391)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in File Open Dialog
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Date: 9 Jan 90 21:42:29 GMT
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In article <21578@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>With these shortcuts, you can open files faster than the command-line fans.
>(I.e. compare UNIX vi's ":e ../../templates/status" to, say, a Mac application
>"CMD-O CMD-Up CMD-Up te RET st RET", assuming that "te" and "st" are sufficient
>to uniquely identify "templates" and "status", respectively.)

Compare vi's ":e ../../te*/st*".  That's right, vi does wildcard matching.
On the command line you can also use file completion ("set filec" to activate
this in csh), where ESCAPE completes the current (partial) filename, and
^D lists all possible completions.  With this feature, even 50-character
filenames are no problem.  Makes it easier to remember what things are...

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman