[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Dean Wilson dwilson at unixdaemon.net
Mon Sep 5 09:55:29 UTC 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:01:36AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Command line history & tab completion in shells[1]. It pains me to watch
> Windows users using cmd.exe have labouriously typing in 50 character
> file paths one character at a time...and then typoing at the 45th
> character & having to start again!

Windows has been able to do this for a fair while now (think doskey if you
go far enough back) and while it's not as slick as bash programmable
completion it covers the basics.

  Dean
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