On Friday 20 April 2007 13:10, James Knott wrote: > Clayton wrote: > >> paragraphs, but reuse those paragraph with the command history. In > >> some ways one can be more lazy with the command line than with a > >> gui when you know what you are doing :-) > > > > Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete > > (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've never > > discovered it) and up arrow to the previous command :-P Instead > > they laboriously retype the commands or type in long paths... and > > typos are inevitable... sigh. > > > > C. > > How do you do command completion in XP???
Hit tab. You may need to enable it using one of the various "tweaker" tools (or, if you're really a hardcore Windows hacker, edit the registry). In X-Setup Pro (<http://www.x-setup.net/>), it's Program Options -> Built-In Windows Apps -> Command Prompt -> CMD Directory AutoComplete Key and ... -> CMD File AutoComplete Key. > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
