Comments on: Use Tab to auto-complete paths in the Finder Go To Folder window

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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:37:00 +0000

[...] discussed tab completion a while ago but it’s worth mentioning again since it makes Command+Shift+G even speedier when [...]

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Convert DOCX to DOC for free with your Mac - OS X Daily — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:02:18 +0000

[...] just a general Terminal tip, I would highly recommend using tab completion when entering in long directory strings and complex names, it’ll save you plenty of [...]

By: adam

adam — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:19:52 +0000

Paster : Exactly, and and must open a new windows to run without take front one… But nice twick so

By: Paster

Paster — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:13:11 +0000

I’m not really surprised by this functionality, nor am I surprised by the fact that Finder auto-completes the path. I’v never used go to folder in Finder though, contrary to tab completion in terminal which I use daily.

After fiddling around with it I’ve found one major flaw:
~/Library/Pr[TAB] adds up to ~/Library/Printers/
while Preferences/ and PreferencePanes/ is also available.
This won’t happen in terminal, either it adds nothing or it shows the available options if you press TAB twice.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:42:03 +0000

I tried your suggestion with ‘~/Library/Pre’,
but before I could hit the Tab key, OS X had already completed the path.
Upon further testing with different and longer paths, OS X completed every path I started to type with no intervention from me.
I would have to question the usefulness of this tip…

OS X 10.6.4