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how to make vim's auto-complete behave like bash's default auto-complete?

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Mar 15, 20265947 views
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When you type :e if there are several matches, vim just picks the first one and you have to cycle through the rest of them with the Tab key. (pretty much like the behavior of the Windows CLI). How do I make it behave like bash where it only completes until there's ambiguity? EDIT: updated question …

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some/path/file<Tab>

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