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Re: File open dialog: Where is my tab extension



On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:40 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > The point is to hide features that only power-users will use. Let me
> > know when you see someone on a Mac or Windows using tab completion,
> > right? ;)
> 
> All Windows boxes I have used were setup to enable tab completion. Heck, the
> trick was shown to me by an MSCE college at the previous job and is dead easy.
> One Windows registry key to change and bingo.

Right, you've proved both my points.
1) It's a power user thing (you need to go and launch regedit, that's
harder than learning about Ctrl+L)
2) "Normal" users don't use it (because it's hidden).

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> 
He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if
she were a dustcart reversing. 



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