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How do I turn off or adjust the clever tab completion in Ubuntu (Programmable Completion)

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When I am running various commands on the command line in Ubuntu and use tab-completion for files. The only files I am given are ones which have the appropriate extension for the command I am running. For example.. would list all the mp3's in the current directory and not any jpegs. Most of the tim…

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xmms <tab><tab>

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Fix for: How do I turn off or adjust the clever tab completion in Ubuntu (Programmable Completion)

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This is called "Programmable Completion" in bash. Use to attempt programmable completion, or use to attempt the default completion (usually files and directories). See also: http://spikeypillow.com/item/30/catid/4

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