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(Unverified)Aug 8th 2006 1:03PM

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I discovered this feature completely by accident. After using tab completion for a long time at work when using tcsh on linux boxes, I was at a windows console and tried it without even thinking. Tab completion also works inside the address bar in Windows Explorer, which can be very handy when you don't want to do a bunch of double-clicking.
It does work a little different than tab completion in tcsh, though. In Windows, it tab-completes to the first possible match when you hit tab. In tcsh, if there are multiple possibilities, it only completes to where they differ. If you hit tab again, it will display the multiple possibilities so you can type in a couple letters and finish with another tab-completion.

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