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Steve's Blog - From .Net to dotMath and everything in between.

January 2006 - Posts

  • auto completion in a command window

    Given the time I've spent writing services and working from the command-line recently, I'm finding this registry hack very handy .

    Now, I can type cd c:\do, press tab and it replaces it with cd "c:\documents and settings" - hit tab again and it displays "c:\dodgeball", etc..   You can continue this pattern down the directory tree and it also cycles through matching filenames as well. To get to c:\windows\system32\drivers, you can type cd \w[tab]\sy[tab]\dr[tab]
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    Between that and dragging an explorer folder to the CMD window, I'm finding life in the command window to be more bearable.





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