Keith Hill [MVP]

"Adam Milazzo [MSFT]" <adamm@san.rr.com> wrote in message
news:%2396zNGbvGHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> If you attempt tab completion on a file in a subdirectory of the current
> one (eg, sub<tab>\fi<tab> for subdir\file), PoSH autocompletes the full
> path.
> C:\a\long\path\with\many\subdirectories\file.txt
>
> This is annoying when the path actually is really long, like 90 characters
> long. It should be more like cmd.exe's autocompletion, which does not
> expand into the full path.

I 100% agree with you on this. I've bugged it before. Now it might be nice
to have a way to get PoSH to autocomplete and give the full path but I don't
think it should be via the default TAB shortcut (maybe Ctrl+TAB instead).

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Keith