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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories!
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In message <iq996g11ge7@news2.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:

> I often use vim to edit my Java sources, and I don't have to type long
> directory names or click-click-click, thanks to the magic of filename
> completion.

No, instead you just go tab-tab-tab, once for each directory level.

Bash and Emacs do the exact same thing. It’s still a pain, with all these 
levels of directories that contain nothing but another subdirectory.

> Not that typing long directory names would be any great burden, since
> entering a filename is a tiny portion of the work I do when producing
> new code or maintaining old.

I am opening and closing lots of files all the time, so specifying those 
filenames takes extra steps, that does indeed slow down everything I do.