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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)
From:       Keith Dunwoody <kstephen () interchange ! ubc ! ca>
Date:       2003-08-06 11:52:28
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Michael Piefel wrote:
> Am  6.08.03 um 13:04:41 schrieb Emile van Bergen:
> 
>>>Tab completion or using /Va* is about as fast as /var.
>>
>>I've considered tab-completion and /Va*, but you must realise that they
>>work only in the shell.
>>
>>Neither tab-completion or globbing is available when I'm editing a file
>>and have to write those path names.
> 
> 
> In Vim insert mode, press ^X^F for completion, ^N/^P to choose among
> many. Also, in GTK+, file selector boxes allow for tab completion.
> 
Also, in emacs one of the expansion techniques used by hippie-expand is to 
perform filename completion.

-- Keith

P.S.  Despite that I'm in favor of shortness.  Even "ls" instead of "dir" is 
worth it for me ;)


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