Re: vim like completion in bash?

[cga2000 <cga2000@optonline.net>]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:21:51AM EST, zhengquan zhang wrote:
>    Hello:
>    I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I
>    need,
>    but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, nothing would happen, it can
>    not find the file I want to edit
>    Is there any switches to make it possible?
>    Thank you.
> 
>    zhang

Works here on sarge. 

You may want to try adding the following lines to your .bashrc:

    if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
      . /etc/bash_completion
    fi

Also, note that if there is more than one match you need to press <TAB>
a second time to display a list of matching files.

Thanks,
cga