[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

Daniel P. Berrange dan at berrange.com
Mon Sep 5 03:01:36 UTC 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:32:48AM +0100, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Some friends of mine have seen the light and are trying out Linux. I'm
> trying to remember things that came as pleasant surprises when I started
> using Linux, and invite anyone to chip in with their own.
> 
> I'm not talking about the big benefits, like security, flexibility,
> freedom, more the little things they can try out and enjoy:

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!

Regards,
Dan.

[1] Even I was truely astonished to see bash now tab-completes against
    *remote* filenames when entering an argument to scp !!!!
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