Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:16:28 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The advantage to Linux is that each can do their own thing. To me the >> drag/drop thing just gets in the way. When is it a copy? A move? An >> open? A delete? etc. > > When I said drag and drop I was talking a bout the ability to drag a > file from a file manger into a terminal and have the terminal complete > the full name of the file without me having to type it in.
Check out the line in /etc/inputrc "set show-all-if-ambiguous On". From the command line you can do 'vi abc<tab>' and it either immediately completes or shows any matching string. For example: view /u<tab>/sh<tab>/doc/o<tab>h/<tab> (translates to /usr/share/doc/openssh-5.9p1/) INSTALL OVERVIEW README.dns README.privsep LICENCE README README.platform README.tun Once you get used to it, it's very fast. You can even use it for the command: $ <tab> Display all 1676 possibilities? (y or n) n $ s<tab> Display all 140 possibilities? (y or n) n $ ss<tab> ss ssh ssh-add ssh-agent ssh-keygen ssh-keyscan sshd $ss etc. For me, file managers take way too much screen real estate. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
