Re: Typing dir name in a file open dialog ...

[Federico David Sacerdoti <dfs1 cec wustl edu>]

Ah, I understand now. The tab completion in the GTK file open/save boxes
makes them a much more powerful place. But I had no idea it was there
until I read the letter below.

This navigation method should be identified so that even people not used
to tab completion (non UNIX) could figure out how to use it. It should
definately be documented in the help system so that the rest of us know
its there. There is nothing about the plain text input field under the two
panes of the open/save boxes that suggest Tab completion over Enter
completion. 

-FDS

> 
> Rather than following windows conventions here where pressing enter for a
> directory displays its contents, the GTK file dialog uses tab completion.
> 
> Try typing "/opt/gnome<tab>" into the dialog (where <tab> is the tab key).
> It also has some other nice features.  For instance typing
> "/usr/share/pixmaps/g<tab>" will only display files starting with g and
> "*.png<tab>" will only display .png files in the current directory.  As
> you can see, this is very powerful.  Maybe it just needs to be documented
> better.
> 
> James Henstridge.
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> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Last time I checked I still couldn't do this. Perhaps someone can tell me why.
> > 
> > When I pop up an open file box in some GNOME application and I type in a
> > directory name, it tells me that it errored trying to open the "file"
> > instead of going to that directory and displaying its contents so that I
> > can choose a file there. I hope this isn't an attempt to force people to
> > navigate directories solely through the GUI.
> > 
> > Am I just not using it "correctly" or is this feature really missing?
> > 
> > 
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