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Re: What Use Autofill
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Re: What Use Autofill


  • Subject: Re: What Use Autofill
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:17:07 -0500

In the original Korn shell in vi mode, "tab" completion is achieved by pressing first the escape key and then the backslash key.  Even option-escape is better than that. :)


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Christian Boyce <email@hidden> wrote:
I wonder why it's not tab. If it was tab, it would work the way a bunch of other programs work. Escape seems like the wrong key-- usually used for Cancel. This use is the opposite of Cancel.

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On Dec 16, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Michelle Steiner wrote:


On Dec 16, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Bruce Robertson wrote:

In applescript editor, there is an autofill feature so that as you begin typing something, the remainder of the string appears.

Say you have a variable articleNumber and you begin typing art and you see articleNumber magically appear before you.

But I can find no way to actually use that. There seems to be no action that actually fills in the value; you must always type every character even though it knows what the characters are.

But I must be missing something.

Option-escape

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 >Re: What Use Autofill (From: Christian Boyce <email@hidden>)

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