Has the file chooser in save mode ever had a location popup ? 
You can just type a path in the name field...

It had it in 2.8. Using the location window was handy if you wanted to change where it was being saved, but keep the same name; typing in the name field means doing one of two things:

a) removing the filename from the field, or
b) typing the path at the start, leaving the name at the end, which means you don't get path-completion.


I guess you can do (a) with cut, and paste it back later, but I was wondering if there was any particular reason it got removed.

(In reply to comment #2)
> It had it in 2.8. Using the location window was handy if you wanted to change
> where it was being saved, but keep the same name; typing in the name field
> means doing one of two things:
> 
> a) removing the filename from the field, or
> b) typing the path at the start, leaving the name at the end, which means you
> don't get path-completion.

I'm marking this as a duplicate, since what you really want is for Tab completion to work even when the text cursor is not at the end of the text in the Name entry.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 314873 ***