Mike, I like that solution, very nice . Love time savers ...especially when your up to your ...in alligators
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Dec 3, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Mike Schwab <mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My thought. While you are typing a command with a partial Unix file > name, leave the cursor at the end of the file name and press a PF key. > The routine would open a popup window with a list of possible > matches. You could select a option by tabbing to the line with the > desired match and pressing enter, or alter the search argument and > pressing enter to search again. Would work very much like ISPF 3.4 or > the mentioned directory listing. > >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Tony Harminc >>> <t...@harminc.net<mailto:t...@harminc.net>> wrote: >>> I don't know about OS X, but recent version of Windows have seriousl >>> "dumbed down" the search interface to the point that it's almost >>> impossible to distinguish between file names and approximate strings >>> inside the files. But for that matter, even Google insists on >>> searching for things vaguely close to what I asked for, rather then >>> the actual thing. >> >> Thank you, Tony: I thought it was just me! Drives me nuts. I wind up opening >> a command prompt and using DIR (or grep, depending). >> >> Re Google: use "verbatim" search. Look under "Search tools", then "All >> results" to find that. I discovered this when I was trying to factcheck a >> story about an elderly man who got a sensitive part of his anatomy stuck in >> a chair (I forget why this was interesting at the time, honest!). The word I >> was searching for has three syllables and begins with "t", but Google kept >> presenting results that had the word "balls" in them. "Smart" is good - when >> I search for "5 cups" and it offers "five cups", that's a GOOD thing. But it >> does go too far sometimes. (Also try searching for a restaurant whose name >> is Italian in Virginia [VA] - "va" is a common Italian word, so you get tons >> of hits *from Italy, in Italian*. Adding "language:english" to the search >> helps there). >> >> ...phsiii >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
