Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: zzapper Subject: Re: Scripts for calling Internet Explorer,Explorer,Word,Access,Excel from Cygwin Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 19:59:23 +0100 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <0rkp90dusb7ll3gneurrim73sk27nqdaic@4ax.com> <409E4ABC.90300@ukf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc3-oxfd4-4-0-cust194.oxfd.cable.ntl.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) On Sun, 09 May 2004 16:14:04 +0100, wrote: >zzapper wrote: >> I will adapt my scripts to use cygstart and also to add the default >> endings such that I can type >> >> >>>wmdb test (no extension supplied >> >> or >> >>>wmdb test.mdb > >I may be pointing out the obvious here, but doesn't tab-completion make >this unnecessary? > > Max. I might have have a test.tex,test.pl,test.pdf etc in the same directory tab-completion becomes a little less effective when you have to cycle thru a list. I'm also a bit of minimal typing fanatic zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s/^/WhfgTNabgureRIvzSUnpxre/|:%s/[R-T]/ /Ig|:normal ggVGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/