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

[John Esak]

> > 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
> --

Not to take anything away from Jeff's implementation, haven't seen it... but
Bob Repko disclosed a way to do this back in The Guru more than 13/14 years
ago...

John