filmanagers

[Jack Coates]

On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 07:01, James Tappin wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:52:06 +0100
> David Wijnants <dwijnants at askalix.com> wrote:
> 
> > James Tappin wrote:
<snip> 
> My favourite use of that capability is to have a konsole open in my
> building directory and konqui open in the archive directory, and just
> drag the filename into the terminal to complete the tar xjvf line.
> (Saves typing 
> tar xjvf /data5/ARCHIVE/tar/XFCE/xfce-3.8.16.tar.bz2
> out in full)
> 

Sorry, but any shell that doesn't support tab completion is just begging
to be replaced with one that does.

> > File managers can be *just* as destructive as terminals...
> Or even more so -- though the problem is both cases is operating
> machines with the brain disengaged.
> 

hear hear!
> 
-- 
Jack Coates
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