Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news1 From: Michael Wojcik Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:55:31 -0400 Organization: Micro Focus Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p475ea0f09ee270471def78b61b78a4a7b11690fdbc051bf0.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3921 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message , 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. No shit, Sherlock. > It’s still a pain, with all these > levels of directories that contain nothing but another subdirectory. It's not a pain. See? We can do this all day. > 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. Perhaps it is your work habits, or your typing speed, that is the problem, and not the length of your filenames. -- Michael Wojcik Micro Focus Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University