Augury and reading chicken bones for profit...(was Pun-dirty...)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:43:48PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> Should any of you want to try something really cool that I'm sure 99% of you
> don't know... Try this. Open Explorer and navigate to some directory with
> lots of stuff in it. Assuming your cursor (the highlight bar in this case)
> has focus in one of the panes, rapidly press the first few letters of a file
> or folder you see below you. The highlight will jump directly to it. Cool,
> huh?  Not knowing this tiny piece of info caused me months of painful
> navigation in Windows. This functionality is true in almost all well written
> trees and listboxes.

Commonly referred to as 'incremental search'.

Possibly the coolest filepro hack I *ever* saw was when Jeff Harrison
implemented this in *browse lookups*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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