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On 09/05/2011 9:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message<iq996g11ge7@news2.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>> 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.

And if you keep all those files open at once instead: tab explosion! Or 
equivalent proliferation of windows/buffers/etc. to find the one you 
want among.