Edit Path Feature - a new development

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 15-03-2003 14:26:02 +0000 jb wrote:

j> ... and it makes your posts lengthy and very ugly.

Well, in most cases the truth is an ugly thing by itself, so I just follow the general esthetic conception .[/face]

[ddofborg]

Is this feature supported in TC v6.0?

AutoComplete like in Explorer (view all matching directories while typing) or like in UNIX Bash/CMD (pressing a button autocompletes)

[wanderer]

Well, I am not quite able to see what this Cm_EditPath (enhanced title bar) is good for anyway and why so many people asked for it.

Well, Karl, let me give you an example. Assume you have a CD with the following paths in it:

Path A: D:\Disk1\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6
Path B: D:\Disk2\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6

Or perhaps two CDs with the same data structures in them:

Path A: D:\Disk1\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6
Path B: E:\Disk1\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6

How would you easily go from Path A to B?

[wanderer]

Now that we can edit the path in the title bar of the files/folders lists it would be very important to have an autocomplete feature associated, like we can see in Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer.

It's very annoying to try to remember the name of that folder that we don't use for a long time.

Nice idea. Perhaps when the editbox in the titlebar is active, tab would act as autocomplete as in most systems.

[interDist]

Are you all trying to get the "good old Unix/DOS feeling" back by asking for a restricted command line box
+ which only allows you to switch between directories and drives
+ which makes you type in partial pathnames (which you cannot remember and do not want to, either, as you all stress)
+ which supports your bad memories by auto-completion

How can you remember a thing you have never known? Imagine you work for a corporation with tons of data scattered along many servers + people have shares with their data - you type a name of the computer, autocomplete gives you the options (open shares) in a list, you select one by just typing one-three letters, and the process repeats itself... It's alot faster the entering each directory by itself, scrolling to the needed share, enter, again searching and so on. I for example, save about 2 seconds for each dir while opening such a path with autocomplete.

[interDist]

Perhaps when the editbox in the titlebar is active, tab would act as autocomplete as in most systems.

My wet dream since I work not by myself alone.

[katatonic]

Hi to all. I'm new to this board, though I'm not new to TC (and WC before) and I've been using it for quite a long time

Now to the topic:
Just like karlchen I can't see much use of the edit-path feature for me.
And as for what wanderer asked:

Path A: D:\Disk1\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6
Path B: E:\Disk1\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6

How would you easily go from Path A to B?

Start typing "cd " in the command line, then press Ctrl-P (which copies the current path to command line), change whatever you want there, then Enter. Not as simple as changing it directly in the titlebar, but not that much more difficult eighter...

However, with autocompletion the Edit path feature could become really useful, especially if autocomplete works both Explorer style - showing a list of matching folders and bash-style - so that Tab autocompletes.

But I think that it will be much more useful if autocomplete (with tab) also works in the command line. It is true, that TC has Ctrl-J, Ctrl-Enter, Ctlr-Shift-Enter, Ctrl-P, etc. to copy names or full paths of files to the command line, but this is not just as cofortable as simply using Tab (or whatever button) to autocomplete. And sometimes I really have to write relatively complex commands and I hate to open a console just to have the autocomplete feature....

For example if you have to merge together a couple of files, probably the easiest way is to execute "copy fileA + fileB + fileC newFile" and it is hard to type this without autocomplete.

[Black Dog]

[face=courier]On 06-01-2004 17:22:59 +0000 katatonic wrote:

k> It is true, that TC has Ctrl-J

I'm sorry, but what exactly ^J do for you in Commander CL? Just curious.[/face]

[djk]

However, with autocompletion the Edit path feature could become really useful, especially if autocomplete works both Explorer style - showing a list of matching folders and bash-style - so that Tab autocompletes. (...)

Look here. Maybe it will help Christian to find the way to implement it in future versions. Let's hope.

[djk]

[face=courier]On 06-01-2004 17:22:59 +0000 katatonic wrote:

k> It is true, that TC has Ctrl-J

I'm sorry, but what exactly ^J do for you in Commander CL? Just curious.[/face]

It seems to work as Ctrl+Enter.

[katatonic]

[face=courier]On 06-01-2004 17:22:59 +0000 katatonic wrote:

k> It is true, that TC has Ctrl-J

I'm sorry, but what exactly ^J do for you in Commander CL? Just curious.[/face]

Copies the name of the currently selected file to the command line

[katatonic]

Yep, exactly. I used to use ctrl-j before, not ctrl-enter, that's why I wrote it first....

[interDist]

Look here. Maybe it will help Christian to find the way to implement it in future versions. Let's hope.

I'm really really hoping ... The Great MSDN, please help Christian find his way in the dark WinAPI forest and let the Good achieve Victory!

[Clo]

2karlchen
Hello Karl!
Globally, my opinion is the same than yours...
Cheers!
Clo

[jnijboer]

Hi, i recently found out that there was this feature to edit the path (since what version btw?). I really like it, it makes it much faster for me to get to a networkshare. Previously I would go to networkneighbourhood and then browse to the right share, now I can just enter \\pcname\share\directory and I'm right there! However, what's still missing (or I just can't find it ) is a hotkey to activate that title bar so I can edit the path without first using the mouse.