Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> I don't understand why anyone would want to have the
> additional overhead required of such a feature
The overhead is insignificant. No processing occurs
until the TAB key is pressed.
> if all it can do for you is to save you a couple of
> keypresses now and then.
With long filenames, it can save many, many keypresses.
> Of course I realize that such a feature would be somewhat
> nice for some people to have, but is it really worth it
> in terms of the additional overhead for system resources
> that could otherwise be devoted to something much more
> useful?
In DOSED, you get filename completion PLUS command history
PLUS commandline editing. This is a _very_ useful package.
Cheers,
Steven
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