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Abbreviating Commands and Using the Suggestion List
== Abbreviating Commands and Using the Suggestion List ==
"Wikipedia babel fish" is quite a lot to type. You can save some wear and tear on your fingers by letting Ubiquity's suggestion list do the work for you. Issue "w" -- bring As you saw in the last section, bringing up Ubiquity and type just the letter typing only "w". You'll see presents you with suggestions of all the commands that start with the that letter "w". At present: namely, that means two commands: Wikipedia and Weather.
[Picture here of Wikipedia and Weather suggestions] Now type When you add the letter "i", so that the input box shows "wi". The suggestion list narrows down to just the one command that starts with "wi" -- —"Wikipedia". [Picture of the Wikipedia suggestion] Now At this point, you can hit the space bar and type the rest of your command: [Picture where sentence, and Ubiquity will know that the input verb you want to use is "wikipedia". This means that issuing "wi babel fish"]is the exact same thing as issuing "wikipedia babel fish".
Let's try another example. Suppose you want to know what the weather is like in Chicago. Try issuing "w chicago".
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