Autocomplete with backslash on paths?

[jason404]

Is it possible to have TCC/LE autocomplete with backslashes on paths, like in bash?

I tried searching the forum but could not find anything.

Cheers

 

[Charles Dye]

Is it possible to have TCC/LE autocomplete with backslashes on paths, like in bash?

Type OPTION and press Enter; you'll get a configuration dialog. Select the "Command Line" tab. The lower-left portion of this page has several options affecting filename completion; you want the third one down.

 

[jason404]

Type OPTION and press Enter; you'll get a configuration dialog. Select the "Command Line" tab. The lower-left portion of this page has several options affecting filename completion; you want the third one down.

Oh that's great. I was not actually expecting a positive reply on this. It looks like there are a lot of interesting options to explore.

Could you tell me if it is possible to stop CD from autocompleting files, like CMD does? It seems stupid for it to autocomplete irrelevant stuff.

Thanks.

 

[David Marcus]

Could you tell me if it is possible to stop CD from autocompleting files, like CMD does? It seems stupid for it to autocomplete irrelevant stuff.

In Option > Command Line > Filename Completion > Options, I have "cd cdd rd:dirs".

 

[Charles Dye]

In Option > Command Line > Filename Completion > Options, I have "cd cdd rd:dirs".

MD and PUSHD might make sense there, too.

 

[David Marcus]

MD and PUSHD might make sense there, too.

Looks like mkdir needs to be listed too.

 

[drrob1]

On 04/17/2011 12:07 PM, Charles Dye wrote:

> ---Quote (Originally by David Marcus)---
> In Option> Command Line> Filename Completion> Options, I have "cd cdd rd:dirs".
> ---End Quote---
> MD and PUSHD might make sense there, too.

As long as we are on the subject of file name completion, is it possible
to have file name completion at the prompt also include files other than
.exe or .btm? For example, I like using executible extensions so I do
this a lot:
taxes.xls

and excel will start w/ taxes.xls loaded. But I cannot use tab to
autocomplete here.

Can I set it up so that <tab> at a command prompt will include
executable extension files for MS-office?

Thanks

 

[Charles Dye]

As long as we are on the subject of file name completion, is it possible
to have file name completion at the prompt also include files other than
.exe or .btm? For example, I like using executible extensions so I do
this a lot:
taxes.xls

and excel will start w/ taxes.xls loaded. But I cannot use tab to
autocomplete here.
<tab>

If you set up .XLS as an executable extension, then tab completion will offer Excel files:

set .xls=excel.exe /e

If you want to complete some filename for which you don't have an executable extension set, type a space before it. Then your filename isn't at the very start of the command line, so the special rules don't apply.

</tab>

 

[drrob1]

thanks.

On 04/17/2011 02:17 PM, Charles Dye wrote:

> If you set up .XLS as an executable extension, then tab completion will offer Excel files:
>
>
> Code:
> ---------
> set .xls=excel.exe /e
> ---------
> If you want to complete some filename for which you don't have an executable extension set, type a space before it. Then your filename isn't at the very start of the command line, so the special rules don't apply.
>
> </tab>
>
> Charles Dye

 

[samintz]

If you're talking about autocomplete, there's
nothing to complete yet if you're making a directory. So MD and MKDIR
wouldn't accomplish much.

-Scott

David Marcus <> wrote
on 04/17/2011 12:24:15 PM:

>
> Originally Posted by Charles Dye [image removed]
> MD and PUSHD might make sense there, too.
>
> Looks like mkdir needs to be listed too.
>

 

[Charles Dye]

If you're talking about autocomplete, there's
nothing to complete yet if you're making a directory. So MD and MKDIR
wouldn't accomplish much.

Ah, but sometimes you create a directory inside another directory. (But you never create a subdirectory inside a file....)

 

[David Marcus]

Ah, but sometimes you create a directory inside another directory. (But you never create a subdirectory inside a file....)

Or, I might want to grab the name of a current directory, then edit it to make a similar new one.

 

[samintz]

Yeah I realized that *after* I hit send.
:)

-Scott

Charles Dye <> wrote
on 04/17/2011 10:10:56 PM:

> Originally Posted by samintz [image removed]
> If you're talking about autocomplete, there's
> nothing to complete yet if you're making a directory. So MD and MKDIR
> wouldn't accomplish much.
>
> Ah, but sometimes you create a directory inside another directory.

> (But you never create a subdirectory inside a file....)
>