Okay this is cool

[Raiden256]

Maybe everyone out there knows this and I just belong on the short bus, but I just discovered this nifty little feature.

I knew about F3 and the up arrow, but it turns out a bunch of the function keys have...well.... functions!

 

You belong on the short bus. It's not as if that was ever in question.

 

[OutHouse]

it does nothing for me.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Citrix
it does nothing for me.

 

[callmesteve]

Oh shoot, thats pretty cool

 

[Rogue]

It doesn't do $hit for me either, computing or otherwise.

EDIT: I guess it helps to build some commands into the buffer in order to be able to see them, huh? 😱

 

[NathanBWF]

Originally posted by: Citrix
it does nothing for me.

 

[xcript]

:thumbsup:

 

[vi edit]

It doesn't do anything if you don't have any commands cached in there. Type in a couple cd's or dir's and then try it.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: NathanBWF

Originally posted by: Citrix
it does nothing for me.

 

[edro]

Sweet, thanks!

 

[Ravven]

very cool! ty

 

[Crucial]

nice.

 

[Raiden256]

Originally posted by: Rogue
It doesn't do $hit for me either, computing or otherwise.

EDIT: I guess it helps to build some commands into the buffer in order to be able to see them, huh? 😱

That's two of us on the short bus.... 😉

 

[Adam8281]

wow, i never knew this, it's pretty cool

 

[SchrodingersDog]

command butter

 

[cloude27]

i didnt know about that, thanks :thumbsup:

 

[Phoenix86]

F5 scrolls through them w/o entering the command so you can edit the command.

 

[QueBert]

Is this an XP only function? If it's existed since Dos days and I didn't know about it, I'm pissed at myself! that is one of the most useful tips I've ever gotten on here. I'm always in a CMD prompt so I'll be using it often, thanks man 🙂

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: QueBert
Is this an XP only function? If it's existed since Dos days and I didn't know about it, I'm pissed at myself! that is one of the most useful tips I've ever gotten on here. I'm always in a CMD prompt so I'll be using it often, thanks man 🙂

F3/F5 has been around since at least DOS 5, though I'm thinking it was there in 3X as well. Not sure when F7 was added, I don't think it was there in DOS, likely new to cmd.

 

[AMDZen]

I was unaware as well, now I know

 

[djheater]

I already knew this.

But I've been writing NT Shell scripts for the last three years as a major component of my job, so it was pretty necessary for me to learn any shortcut I could....

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: Citrix
it does nothing for me.

Had you typed any commands before you tried it?

 

[Shawn]

Just use the up and down arrows.

 

[fs5]

I like Ctrl-R myself, alas unix only