68 Macworld • January 2022MACOS MONTEREY
Big Sur limits matches to exact autocompletions.Monterey provides matches, not just autocompletion, in
declining order of exactness to what you typed.more likely you’ll find a folder that
you don’t know the precise name of,
or if you type fewer characters to
make a match.
In Big Sur, start to type a path
and macOS will offer only auto-fill
suggestions. In Monterey, however, it
offers exact matches, but also fuzzier
ones. Type in ~/.ss, and macOSsuggests Users >
gif > .ssh, the path
to the .ssh folder in
my user folder. But
it also matches
.dvdcss, which has
two s’s in a row,
and then suggests
even looser
potentials, like
.zsh_history and
.keybase-installer.
As you go down
the list, matches
become even
more tangentially
related to what
you typed.