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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.







Comments

Jason Haley said:

# January 13, 2006 7:14 AM

shebert said:

Tweak UI (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) allows you to set this up without meddling in the registry.

Thanks, Brett.
# January 13, 2006 9:36 AM

Eber Irigoyen said:

newbies... just kidding
here's the command line reference A-Z
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.mspx
# January 13, 2006 12:13 PM
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