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As it turns out QuickEdit is turned on in my XP, but certainly not by
me.<br>
<br>
The unfolding of what the cmd prompt actually does reminds me of a
couple of incidents. When I wrote a book on an interpretive Basic
language in the early 90s, the very first paragraph began with how to
exit from the interpreter. At the time, it seemed popular with such
interpreters to obfuscate the exit command by using names like SYSTEM!
Yikes! <br>
<br>
When I was introduced the C by the Kernighan and Ritchie book, I almost
jumped for joy with their famous "Hello World" program. This was a book
to be read. When I casually, and I mean casually, started looking at
python a few years ago, I started with what I might call a (well-known)
bloated book on the subject, it took until chapter 3 for the author to
say anything about running programs. The first programming job I had
found me staring at a government issued
200 page manual printed in capitals on a then popular language. What a
huge bore. It's a wonder that I continued, or anyone, for that matter.
I guess the right start matters, or in the words of the hero in
Schindler's List (movie), "It's all about presentation." After this
cmd console "discovery", I'd say this is quite possibly something I'd
put in the first chapter of any book on Python. <br>
<br>
Nice to know about F8 (and F7), tab or other attempts didn't do it for
me. I'll take Alan's suggestion on spending some time on the reading
XP Help.<br>
<br>
Tim Golden wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:499FCF29.8090701@timgolden.me.uk" type="cite">Alan
Gauld wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Cut n paste of the path works, but you can
also use tab to complete the file name which speeds things up
considerably.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
And you can drag a file in from explorer to a Console window
<br>
to get the full path pasted in automatically.
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Even on DOS F3 repeated the last command but
on XP (and indeed since Win95) you can use up/down arrow to step back
through the command history. And you can set it to remember the history
betweeen sessions (although I don't personally do that...) I think you
can also search back through the history but I don't use that very
often and I'm maybe confusing it with cygwin/bash!
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
No, you're right: if you press a few characters and then
<br>
F8 a matching line will be populated (can't remember if
<br>
it's the most recent or the oldest). If you press F7, a
<br>
selection list of all the lines entered pops up and you
<br>
can select from there.
<br>
<br>
And all the old tricks from the original DOS shells work:
<br>
F3 as you mentioned (altho' up/down arrows are easier for
<br>
this); F2 will copy up to a particular characters. Quite
<br>
limited but still they have their possibilities.
<br>
<br>
<br>
TJG
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