great idea! for those of us old enough to remember TOPS-10's escape completion of commands, Windows' "/f:on" option is a must-have. stexbar give us the ability to open a command window in the currently-selected directory, but not a way to have "/f:on" automatically executed, too.

i'm specifically looking for the ability to have "/f:on" automatically suffixed to the command line, but the implementation should probably just allow ANY string to be suffixed.

of course, this is an enhancement, not a defect.

"help cmd" shows the following:

You can enable or disable file name completion for a particular invocation of CMD.EXE with the /F:ON or /F:OFF switch. You can enable or disable completion for all invocations of CMD.EXE on a machine and/or user logon session by setting either or both of the following REG_DWORD values in the registry using REGEDIT.EXE:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\PathCompletionChar

    and/or

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompletionChar
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\PathCompletionChar

with the hex value of a control character to use for a particular function (e.g. 0x4 is Ctrl-D and 0x6 is Ctrl-F). The user specific settings take precedence over the machine settings. The command line switches take precedence over the registry settings.

If completion is enabled with the /F:ON switch, the two control characters used are Ctrl-D for directory name completion and Ctrl-F for file name completion. To disable a particular completion character in the registry, use the value for space (0x20) as it is not a valid control character.

So if you really need this, just enable it in the registry. Or create a new console command which enables /F:ON on start.