windows tip
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
Ah! I remembered using this ages ago but kept forgetting the registry key to edit. Thanks for the reminder. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
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NICE! Since I'm so used to bash (It's a unix shell for you anti-unix people) I always hit tab trying to complete filenames in dos. This will come in handy. Thanks, Jack To an optimist the glass is half full. To a pessimist the glass is half empty. To a programmer the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Maybe you'd be interested in this then (or have already tried it)... http://www.redhat.com/download/cygwin.html It's a unix environment for windows including a bash shell.
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
Tweak-UI has also had an option to turn it on for quite a while. Ever since the W2K betas I've used this handy feature. // Rock
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Cheers, Tom Archer Author, Inside C#
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
There is another nice tip I have for you Once I wanted to have green text on black background, like old UNIX terminals had, I searched, and I found. If you add /T:xx you to your cmd.exe shortcut you can have terminal in your favourite colours
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
I am using Windows 2000 and I can't find the Registry to look for the CompletionChar. Could someone please point me in the direction I need to look? Thanks
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I am using Windows 2000 and I can't find the Registry to look for the CompletionChar. Could someone please point me in the direction I need to look? Thanks
Um...even though I hope you aren't serious I will still give you the clue. Start->Run regedit ---- xian "Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots." -despair
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There is another nice tip I have for you Once I wanted to have green text on black background, like old UNIX terminals had, I searched, and I found. If you add /T:xx you to your cmd.exe shortcut you can have terminal in your favourite colours
For light green on a black background the values would be... cmd.exe /T:0A Jeremy L. Falcon "The One Who Said, 'The One Who Said...'" Homepage : Feature Article : Sonork = 100.16311
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
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Search for CompletionChar in the registry. Set the value to 9 and you can get tab completion in dos windows. This is default in XP apparently but and has been in windows since NT4.0 supposedly. Tab cycles to the next selection and Shift+Tab the previous. I wish I knew of this way back when. Anybody else know of this or was I just out of the loop? :)
Run cmd.exe /f:on (on W2K) and you can have the same effect with CTRL-F (files) and CTRL-D (folders). Haim