From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: different behaviour between emacs on linux and emacs on windows Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:51:50 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1152146462.289905.295140@v61g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> <1152156774.947841.211670@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152309199 31274 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2006 21:53:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 07 23:53:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyG0-0001uh-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:53:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyG0-0002rS-JY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyFo-0002qv-Vt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:52:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyFn-0002qT-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:52:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyFn-0002qQ-C1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FyyGI-0000Q0-0D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FyyFb-0001sO-Cz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:52:39 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:52:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <1152156774.947841.211670@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35864 Archived-At: Ted wrote: > Johan Bockgård wrote: >> "Ted" writes: >>> Instead, I have to remember where all my files are and type in the >>> full path and file name. >> >> Have you tried the TAB key? > > Maybe this shows how little I have used Linux in recent years, but what > would using the TAB key do for me, other than insert a tab in whatever > text I am working with? Read the Minibuffer section of the Emacs manual, and its File, Edit, Completion, and History subsections. -- Kevin