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Re: BUG/ANNOYANCE: PoSH autocompletes the full path rather than aminimal path
Keith Hill [MVP] wrote:
> "Adam Milazzo [MSFT]" <adamm@san.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:%2396zNGbvGHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> 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.
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> 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).
I think the cases where the full path is really needed are rare, and you
could get away with defining a function that takes a possibly-relative
path and returns the full path.
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