Alan Gauld wrote:
Cut n paste of the path works, but you can also use tab to complete the file name which speeds things up considerably.
And you can drag a file in from explorer to a Console window to get the full path pasted in automatically.
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!
No, you're right: if you press a few characters and then F8 a matching line will be populated (can't remember if it's the most recent or the oldest). If you press F7, a selection list of all the lines entered pops up and you can select from there. And all the old tricks from the original DOS shells work: F3 as you mentioned (altho' up/down arrows are easier for this); F2 will copy up to a particular characters. Quite limited but still they have their possibilities. TJG _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
