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Vinson Carrethers imlaidbac at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 21:38:58 UTC 2008


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Karl Larsen wrote:
> Vinson Carrethers wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>   
>>>>     Well for some reason it does not work for me at all. In a terminal I 
>>>> write sudo vim /etc/X11 and then a Tab and it looks like /etc/X11\ and 
>>>> it does not work. What have I done wrong?
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     
> This is the vim site and it is quite current.
> http://www.vim.org/
> 
> However, I have had no luck finding a solution to your problem.
> I will continue to search if you are on dial-up.  Please let me know.
> vince
> 
>>

>     I was told the answer. See my message.

> Karl



None of this is true now.  I downloaded vim 1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3 and now when I
type sudo /etc/X11, I am not required to press 'Tab' any number of times.  The
X11 directory/file list comes up as default.  I like that!

I tried it on other directories with the same results.  Sweet.



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