On 8/23/07, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> The oldest version I have on my computer is Stata 8 (I use it to test if a
> program works on Stata 8 if I claim it does), and the tab trick works
> there as well (and I was unaware of it till now as well)
I suspect its a bit of a throwback to command and filename completion
on various shells on *NIX like systems (and more recently windows
command prompt). I've been using the feature since at least version 8
and find it exceptionally useful as I'm very lazy with my typing.
It may be buried in the -man whatsnew- information somewhere, but I
don't have the time to search through them.
Neil
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