// for device names has been scattered

Help & Support
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Hi everybody,

I became used to accessing machines in the network with the lister input:

//laptop (i.e. to access a pc named laptop)

This is a great feature and every time I am using a non dopus pc (yuck) I curse on how complicated it is to access another pc.

But for quite a long time the alias function has killed the above feature or at least the easy way to access it. The reason is that when typing the second slash it will auomatically search for the alphabetically first alias and completes it. This is of course not what I wanted and although this auto-completion might be of some use it kills the //

Before I totall get used to first typing the first Slash, then typing the name of the machine and at last going back to the first slash and adding another one, it would be great if this bug/feature is remove/improved.

Thanks in advance
Bodo

2

You can use \ instead. :slight_smile:

3

\ is actually the standard UNC nomenclature and will work in all Windows software, not just Opus. // only works before because Opus lets you generally use / and \ interchangeably (although now, not with aliases, as you have discovered.)

4

thx, Nudel and jon,

not that I know what to do I also have learned how to do it on other machines. Somehow this feature in Dopus made me unlearn ist :slight_smile:

Regardless it shouldn't be more than 1 or lines of code to exclude the // from auto-completion or at least only the second /

Maybe you can give it a thought? Would be great.

Thanks
Bodo