Re: Command line shortcut

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I've seen someone navigation through folders using command line the
way so it was finishing the names of folders. Say you type in "prog"
and you getting "program files". Must be som key combination. Any idea
how to do that?
yaro

They are using the history features. There are two basic ways:

The F keys starting with F2 will bring back past commands, parts of
commands, or commands up to a certain letter, etc..

The up and down arrows will lead you through the last commands you
issued sequentially. Up arrow once is the last command, up arrow again
to the next to last, and so forth, until you get to the very first
command you entered.

Very useful features IMO. Some like the F keys, a leftover from DOS
days, and some prefer the arrow keys more, which used to be an addon
program.

Cheers,

Twayne


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