Vista - Tab Completion oddity

This is an oddity that I came across when playing with the `n issue I
posted about yesterday. I have called it "tab completion" since that
is what it appears to be.

Create a file ABC.txt in the current working directory.

Type a command
"ABC"
and make sure that the cursor is after the second quote.

Press Tab

The text inside the quotes changes to
ABC.txt
which I didn't expect.

Is this the intended behaviour?

Andrew Watt MVP

May I ask what the intended behavior you were expecting, though?

"Andrew Watt [MVP]" wrote:

> This is an oddity that I came across when playing with the `n issue I
> posted about yesterday. I have called it "tab completion" since that
> is what it appears to be.
>
> Create a file ABC.txt in the current working directory.
>
> Type a command
> "ABC"
> and make sure that the cursor is after the second quote.
>
> Press Tab
>
> The text inside the quotes changes to
> ABC.txt
> which I didn't expect.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour?
>
> Andrew Watt MVP
>

This is intended behavior. If a path contains space, it has to be single or
double quoted.
When you do a tab completion after "ABC", "ABC" is considered as part of a
relative path from the current working directory.

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Microsoft Corporation
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"Andrew Watt [MVP]" <SVGDeveloper@aol.com> wrote in message
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> This is an oddity that I came across when playing with the `n issue I
> posted about yesterday. I have called it "tab completion" since that
> is what it appears to be.
>
> Create a file ABC.txt in the current working directory.
>
> Type a command
> "ABC"
> and make sure that the cursor is after the second quote.
>
> Press Tab
>
> The text inside the quotes changes to
> ABC.txt
> which I didn't expect.
>
> Is this the intended behaviour?
>
> Andrew Watt MVP